Your work on the walls, one piece at a time
Curators, collectors and people thinking about a commission go to an artist’s website to see the work properly and to find out how to get in touch. In a feed, a painting is the size of a phone and sits between everything else.
Studio hangs a selection — three to eight works — one at a time, each framed on a gallery wall with its label: the title, the medium and the size, the year, and a line of yours. Visitors move from one to the next by scrolling, in the order you hang them.
After the works come what you take on, a few lines about you, where you’ve shown, and a form for commissions and enquiries. It isn’t a shop: people ask about a work, and you answer.
What your site shows
Your name at the door
The page opens on your name and a sentence saying what you make and where you work; search engines get the same sentence as the site’s description. The button at the top can ask for what you want: an enquiry, a commission, a studio visit.
The hang
Your works hang one after another, in the order you add them, and each has the screen to itself for a moment with its label. A small drawing and a large canvas get the same attention.
The wall label
Each label carries what a wall text would: the title, the medium and the size, the year, the collection it belongs to if you want to say so, and one line in your words.
Practice and exhibitions
After the walk: the kinds of work you take on — commissions, murals, editions —, each named in a word and explained in a sentence; a paragraph about you; then the galleries, fairs and collections you’ve shown with, listed by name under “Shown at” or whatever heading you give the list.
Enquiries
Enquiries reach your inbox with the price band the person ticked. With a booking link, “Book a call” sits next to the send button, for a studio visit or a conversation.
Have this ready
- Photographs of three to eight works, taken straight on, evenly lit and cropped to the edge of the work.
- For each: the title, the medium and size in 40 characters (“Oil on linen · 100 × 81 cm”), the year and one line.
- Where each work is, if you want to say: a collection, “Available”, or nothing.
- Two to six kinds of work you take on, a short word each, with a sentence.
- A few lines about you, and the galleries, fairs, prizes or collections to list.
- Price bands for commissions, one per line, and a line to go under the contact heading.
- For the form, a Web3Forms key (it’s free); and a booking link, if you open the studio to visits.
Worth knowing
Crop to the edge of the work
The page frames every picture itself. A photograph that still shows the wall, the easel or your own frame gets framed twice, so crop to the painted edge and straighten the perspective until the corners are right angles.
Give the size in words
Every picture hangs at much the same size in the room — a miniature as large as a four-metre canvas — so the label has to say what the picture can’t. Put the dimensions in “what you did”, next to the medium.
Sold work can stay on the walls
Selling a painting doesn’t transfer its copyright, so showing a sold work on your own site stays yours to do. Ask the buyer before naming them, and write “Private collection” where the label has room for the client.
Questions
- Can I sell work straight from the site?
- Not through the kit: there’s no basket and no checkout. Enquiries arrive through the form and you reply with the price and the details. If you sell prints in a shop elsewhere, that shop can be one of the footer’s links.
- I make sculpture. Does it work for three-dimensional work?
- Each piece hangs as a photograph, so a sculpture shows as you photograph it: one view, well chosen. The gallery doesn’t turn a sculpture round; if you have a 3D model of one piece, the Product kit is the one that shows a single object in 3D.
- Can I show more than eight works?
- Eight is the most. Treat the room as a hang rather than an archive: when a new body of work is ready, swap the pictures in the wizard and publish the new download over the old site.
- Can I add a longer statement or a CV?
- The paragraph about you is where a short statement goes, and the list of galleries, fairs and collections takes one name per line. A full CV or a catalogue in PDF can live elsewhere and be linked from the footer.