Artist, Charles Chandler   Charles Chandler
Photo provided by the Knoxville News Sentinel

Charles Chandler creates icons. He has studied with Father Brendan McAnerney, a Domican monk and founder of DominiCON in San Diego, California and also with Anton and Julia Belova of the Yaroslavi School in Russia as they researched and restored historic church icons.

Charles uses pigments, traditional egg tempera, and gold leaf to create images like those that have illuminated the spiritual journey of Western Christianity for the past twenty centuries.

The images he paints are sacred icons. With the language of iconography, Charles express spiritual experiences. Spirituality connects all great art. Iconography is fine art, a sacred art-form and a prayer.

Since the turn of the 21st Century, he has studied the language of the icon on his own. In addition, each year he takes several iconography workshops. Charles is a charter member of the East Tennessee Iconographers Guild.

He is a frequent guest speaker about the art and tradition of icon painting and is deeply involved in the evolving techniques of the media used to create the stunning works.

A Knoxville native born in 1939, Charles Chandler was an optical engineer for more than 25 years. He and his wife, Mary Pat, owned a computer company for 21 years, and he is responsible for developing the technology required to produce the soft contact lens.

Now Charles works fulltime in his icon studio. In addition to his own work, he is available to research and paint icons on special request.
Gabriel
Fluid Acrylic
Cradled Poplar Panel
7"H x 5"W

Sweet Kissing
Laminated Paper on Wood
10"H x 8"W

Elousa
Acrylic Gouache
Gesso-Masonite-MDH
12"H x 9"W

Pantocrator
Acrylic Gouache
Gesso-Masonite-MDH
12"H x 9"W

John the Baptist
Fluid Acrylic
Gesso-Masonite-MDH
12"H x 9"W

Theophany
Fluid Acrylic
Gesso-Masonite-MDH
12"H x 9"W

Savior
Egg Tempra
Gesso-Linen-Wood
7"H x 5"W

Saint Paul
Fluid Acrylic
Gesso-Masonite-MDH
12"H x 9"W

Visitation
Fluid Acrylic
Gesso-Masonite-MDH
12"H x 9"W

Canonical Archangels: Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel
medium info coming
size info coming

Our Lady of Vladimir
medium info coming
size info coming

St. John the Apostle with Repousee
Egg Tempra on Cradled Clayboard
12"H x 9"W



All sizes given in inches, before framing, unless otherwise noted.



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