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As you approach the warmly lit home of Naples artist Gisela Miller, casually dressed couples can be seen through the windows milling about, while soft music blends with the sounds of distant wind chimes.

A slight evening chill adds to the ambience as friends both old and new gather around a selection of hors d’oeuvres neatly arranged in a circular pattern on a large glass table.

This is an evening of art, a home studio gathering — an invitation to experience creations in a home setting rather than the standard fare of galleries and showrooms.

Invitations had been sent to nearly 200 art enthusiasts, encouraging them to bring friends to experience the work created by the demure artist whose powder blue eyes are as soft as her voice, a contrast to the strong bold strokes and vibrant colors that greet you as you enter her living room. Home showings offer the art collector an idea how paintings and sculptures can work in various rooms of the home.

Miller’s place has been transformed into an explosion of art, with small spolights strategically illuminating a body of work that stretches from hallway to hallway.

There are sculptures, sketches of women and colorful lines that spill from their edges. Contrasting styles that add to the notion that art does not have to match your couch.

Abstract meets contemporary all through the home as a pair of acrylic collages — titled “Faith Obscured I and II” — frame the antique burled armoire to accentuate the scale and beauty of the old and new.

As the evening comes to a close, Miller makes her final few rounds to thank the guests. She steps onto the patio and spots 81-year-old Betty Singer, seated next to an acrylic painting called “Living In the Light.”

“Her bold necklace mimicked the composition and the metallic sheen of the painting on the easel. It was so striking,” Miller says later, “that she was effectively creating a montage with my artwork. And best of all, Betty was the embodiment of the title.”