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Artist Portfolios - Webpages

      An artist portfolio is one of the most important aspects of an artist's professional life, as it displays their work and makes new opportunities available for the artist. A website, being the primary professional online presence for an artist, is very important to be made in a way that attracts viewers attention. If a website is creative and engaging with the user, it will encourage more attention to an artists' work.
      As I begin to study the design of different artist portfolio websites, as I prepare to make my own, there are a few websites that I found that really stood out to me. The first of which is the website of a street artist known as Banksy. I really liked his website as it has a very simple design and is simple to navigate. I also really like how the font choice reflects the kind of art Banksy is involved in, as it resembles graffiti.
      The second website I came across is probably my favorite on this list, this being the portfolio of James Turrell. His website immediately caught my eye with his brilliant homepage. This page is simple, yet elegant at the same time. This page has a slowly moving background that slowly pulses, as if it is shifting light across a surface. The menus are also very responsive and have a very nice fading animation as they are rendered. These attributes all lend this page a very light and connected feel to the page as the user interacts with the page.
      The third website that I came across is that of Wim Delvoye. This website, yet again, has a very unique and eye-catching homepage. This website, like the two previously discussed, is very easy to navigate. The portfolio page, however, is slightly different than the others. This page contains all of the artwork that the artist has made, but the art is sorted by year and clicking on one of the years at the top scolls the page to display the artwork made in the selected year. The user can choose to manually scroll to other years, or click on the desired year. This extra freedom and better organization results in a cleaner and easier to navigate page.
      Each of the websites that I found all had a couple common factors. The first of which is a catchy homepage that reflects the type of artwork the artist is involved in. The second is that the site is easy to navigate, with fonts that fit with the theme of the rest of the site. Designing the sight in such a way that makes navigation fluid and simple is a very important factor that made these websites functional, and make it possible to display artwork to viewers.


  1. http://www.banksy.co.uk/
  2. http://jamesturrell.com/
  3. https://wimdelvoye.be/


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