Christiane Vielle has a strong classical influence, particularly through her use of black and white as her primary colors, allowing her to play with shadow and light. The artist builds her compositions on the depth of her blacks and whites. Her blacks can be deep or pure, while her whites may evoke chalk or fine sand. Yet she is distinctly contemporary in both her aesthetics and her art. According to André-Pierre Syren, “her artworks are at once dense like charcoal and light as foam.”

Her training in interior architecture enables her to create drawings that are sometimes highly structured, and at other times exquisitely soft. Her work is thus defined by an extremely rich material texture.

A multifaceted artist, she also illustrates numerous books, for which she has received awards, and poetry, as a natural extension of her art.

Christiane Vielle is represented in several museums in France and abroad: the Musée de Belfort, the Musée des Beaux-Arts du Havre, the Musée de Morlaix, as well as the Museum of Mexico and the Bodleian Library in Oxford.