For artists, having room to create can be just as important as having the right materials. Finished pieces, works in progress, canvases, sculptures, and supplies can quickly compete for valuable studio space. This week’s Compass Business Spotlight features 3rd Raven Studios, a Sarasota, Florida-based creative partnership where husband-and-wife artists work independently from their home studios, creating paintings and sculptures that are exhibited in galleries and online.
About 3rd Raven Studios
3rd Raven Studios brings together two artists, each with their own creative practice and perspective. Both are painters and sculptors who create from their home studios and exhibit their work through galleries and online.
Artist Robert Doyon describes himself as a “Swiss Artist’s Knife,” a reflection of the range of creative skills he has developed throughout his career. His work spans painting, sculpture, and mixed media, including a collection of paintings and sculptures exploring his experiences following his service in Vietnam. His wife, known professionally as Skottla, brings a different visual approach to 3rd Raven Studios. Her paintings have evolved from abstract figurative work toward non-objective abstraction, with her work exploring ideas that move between physical and spiritual worlds.
Together, their practices make 3rd Raven Studios a space for continued exploration, experimentation, and—most importantly—making art.
How Compass Self Storage Supports 3rd Raven Studios
An artist’s studio needs room for creativity. When finished artwork, supplies, and materials begin filling that space, however, it can become harder to make room for the next idea.
3rd Raven Studios uses Compass Self Storage on Lockwood Ridge Road in Sarasota to store artwork inventory along with art supplies and materials. The artists say self storage provides flexible space, improves organization, and allows them to manage inventory away from their working studios.
For Robert and Skottla, climate-controlled storage is particularly important because of what they’re storing. As Robert shared: “The Climate-Controlled Space is an absolute must to maintaining and preserving our Artworks.”
Moving stored artwork and materials out of their home studios also provides another valuable benefit: more room to actually create. Robert’s testimonial sums it up best: “We have Room in our Studios to set up Multiple Easles & MAKE MORE ART!”
Instead of allowing completed pieces and supplies to compete with their active workspace, Robert and Skottla can keep those items in a separate space while preserving more of their studios for the creative process.
Why Choose Compass Self Storage for Your Business
Not every business measures its need for space in pallets of inventory or boxes of supplies. For artists and other creative professionals, more space can mean another easel, a larger work surface, room to start a new sculpture, or simply the freedom to step back and see a project differently.
Self storage can help separate the things a creative business needs to keep from the space it needs to create. For 3rd Raven Studios, that means using storage for artwork inventory, supplies, and materials while maintaining more usable room inside two active home studios.
Climate-controlled storage can also be an important consideration for businesses storing temperature-sensitive items. By providing a more consistent storage environment than a standard outdoor unit, it can be a useful option for certain artwork, inventory, documents, and other materials.
3rd Raven Studios is a great example of how the right storage solution can support a business in an unexpected way. The value isn’t simply having somewhere to put things—it’s what you can do with the space you get back. If your business would benefit from additional space, find a Compass location near you and rent or reserve your space today!