The Brenner Studio, a workspace and gallery for the encaustic artist Barbara Brenner, is adjacent to the artist’s home on a 3-acre lakefront property near Newnan, Georgia, 40 minutes south of downtown Atlanta and a short 5-minute drive from the conservation minded village, Serenbe .

Designed and constructed in conjunction with the artist’s house, the Studio includes a workspace, conference area, gallery/living space and a sleeping loft for visiting artists and collaborators.  The spaces are linearly arranged in a sloping loft-like space with the workspace at the low end and a 2^nd floor sleeping loft at the high end.  The conference and gallery spaces occupy the middle.  A carport, extending from the side of the workspace, provides a covered service entrance and defines the main entry.  On the opposite side, a doorway leads to an elevated boardwalk connecting the studio to the main house.

The exterior follows the theme of the main house’s 2^nd floor with a light colored stucco frame encapsulating dark gray in-fill panels.  At the studio, the stucco frame begins as a wall touching the ground on the low side, continues up the sloped roof line and down the high side, stopping at the 2^nd floor sleeping loft. Offset from the stucco frame, walls of gray fiber cement and glass panels articulate the design with ever-changing shade and shadow lines.