studio 7

Light-filled, spacious, and intentionally designed as a place for expansion, this new home for my work offers room for breath, risk, and evolution. It’s where intuition has more space to grow, where ideas are allowed to unfold at their own pace, and where the quiet discipline of my art practice meets the openness of possibility and the energy of love.

Chris Brandell sitting in her light filled studio reading from her journal

“My studio is a sacred space where love, intuition, and unseen energy shape the work as much as my hand does.” -chris

oil painting materials on canvas in the light filled studio of Chris Brandell

“…a stroke of paint can have so much meaning…and it feels like love…and yet its just a stroke of paint on a piece of canvas…”-chris

close up detail of chris Brandell's paint brushes in her studio
several pieces of artwork by Chris Brandell stacked in the first Marco Island studio
colorful pastels perched on a ladder close up in the studio of chris brandell
Chris Brandell facing her palette painting in her light filled studio
chris brandell's journal close up on canvas in the studio

“let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.” -rumi

Chris Brandell with the studio dog, Sam, leaning on a ladder in Studio 7 on Marco island

“do what you love, forget the rest” -chris

colorful pastels organized in a box in the studio of Chris Brandell
Chris Brandells used RFPaints pigments sticks in the studio
two paintings in progress in abstract artist Chris Brandell's VA studio
Close up of the painting hand of abstract artist Chris Brandell

“my loyalty is to the inner vision, whenever and howsoever it may arrive.”-mary oliver

art materials and the journal of Chris Brandell in her light filled studio on Marco island

“…the words have energy to me… and so I can feel that in the painting, and the painting and the words become the same to me” -chris

Graffit on Concrete #5 painting by abstract artist, Chris Brandell in the studio with supplies on the floor. This painting includes her iconic written words.
Chris Brandell with her studio dog, Sam, working on paintings in the first Marco Island studio
Chris Brandell painting in her favorite chucks on a studio stool in VA studio
Studio 7 front door where abstract artist Chris Brandell creates artwork
Painting and painting can closeup from Chris Brandell's VA studio
charcoal close up in the light filled studio of Chris Brandell on Marco island
Chris Brandell's hand in action with a paint brush close up in the Marco Island studio

“the most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”-mary oliver