Born in Paris, Ondine Gilson lives and works in Rouen and Dordogne. Self-taught, she began training in Paris in 2018. She had her first exhibition at the Galerie du Montparnasse, Matière sensible, alongside painter and decorator Sophie Echène. In 2025, she had her first solo exhibition in the Village Suisse (Paris), where she presented a new series of oil pastels. That same year, she took part in a research residency at Cove Park in Scotland, which enabled her to develop a new series. Cathedrals bathed in strange light, rural landscapes with distorted colours, ancient figures and animals: Ondine Gilson’s work focuses on places and objects that are foreign to the modern world, refuges of a centuries-old slowness. Her technique has evolved from acrylic to oil, via oil pastels. She combines these mediums in a recent series, accumulating them in successive layers in search of a vibration. At the heart of her work lies the question of immersion: the porosity between interior and exterior, the connection between consciousness and the object it observes. In the deployment of a dominant and diffuse colour, her work questions the continuity of the real and the imaginary. It seeks the possibility of an in-between: distorting reality to express the absence of boundaries, but also of escape.