Village Fine Art Gallery, 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