Saora Websites for artists

Portfolio websites for fine artists

A website that treats your work like art, not thumbnails.

Hand-finished portfolio sites for painters and fine artists. You update everything from a simple spreadsheet — no website builder, no developer, no hosting to manage.

Figurative oil painting against a gold-leaf background, shown on a portfolio site we built
The Memory Of, 2025 · oil on canvas — as shown on a site built with this system
ForPainters & fine artists
PracticeValencia · serving worldwide
Founding cohort2026 · five places
From€200 setup + €120/year

Never build a website again.

The easy part
vivienne-marsh — worksPublish
TitleYearPriceStatus
Luna2023€4,800Available
Nyx2023€3,900Available
Duet I2022€6,200Sold
Luna — oil painting on the artist's live site
Luna, 2023€4,800

Squarespace still makes you the designer. Artlogic makes you the admin. Here, your entire job is a spreadsheet you already know how to use: change a price, mark a work sold, add a new piece — click publish, and the site updates itself. No developer. No builder. No hosting to manage.

  • Hosting fees & renewals
  • Page builders & plugins
  • Themes, updates, breakage
  • FTP, DNS, cPanel panic
  • “My developer isn’t replying”
  • What’s left: a spreadsheet.

Two personalities. One system.

Live demos

Editorial

Warm, serif, classic — a quiet gallery feel for figurative and traditional work.

Open site →

Gallery

Pure white, modern, side navigation — the room disappears, the art stays.

Open site →

Both demos run on the same system with different settings — typography, colour, layout and tone are tuned per artist. Yours won't look like anyone else's.

Send us 8 MB files. Your visitors get half a second.

The invisible feature
Typical artist site8.4 MB image
0.0s
Built by us0.18 MB · optimised
0.0s

Simulation — typical timing for an unoptimised 8 MB image on a 4G connection, same painting both sides.

No manual work for you

Upload your photos straight from the camera. No exporting, no compression apps, no shrinking files by hand and hoping they still look good — we take care of all of it.

Smaller optimised files

Every image is automatically compressed and resized for every screen — around 45× smaller, with no visible loss of quality.

Lightning fast page loads

Your work appears in under half a second, not the twelve-second crawl that loses visitors before they see it. You upload; the speed is handled.

The principle

Minimal is not the same as undesigned — restraint is a craft.

Type · space · rhythm

Why artists choose this over a platform

The difference
01

You update it yourself

Change a price, mark a work sold, add a new piece — edit a simple spreadsheet and click publish. No developer, ever.

02

Done for you

Setup, hosting, domain connection, image processing — all handled, one simple yearly price. You never see a server or a settings panel.

03

Art-first design

Editorial layouts with varied scale and generous space — composed like an exhibition, not a spreadsheet of thumbnails.

04

Instant images

Send your full-resolution files; they're automatically optimised and served in modern formats. Pages load in under a second.

05

You own everything

Your domain, your images, your words. Zero lock-in: if you ever leave, you take it all with you.

06

Built to be found

Fast loading, clean structure and a dedicated page per artwork — exactly what search engines reward, so collectors find you, not just your Instagram.

How it works

Three steps

Send your work

Images, plus a simple list: title, year, medium, size, price. That's all we need.

We build it around your art

You review a live preview while we tune the typography, colour and layout to suit your work.

It's yours

Live on your own domain within days. From then on, update everything yourself from your spreadsheet.

Pricing

Simple, honest

Founding artist offer

€200 setup + €120/year

  • Design tuned to your work — typography, colour, layout
  • Hosting, SSL and domain connection included
  • Automatic image optimisation, every device
  • Spreadsheet updates — prices, sold works, new pieces
  • New artwork additions through the year
  • Email support from a real person
Become a founding artist
Squarespace / Wix — and you build it yourself€0
Gallery platforms (Artlogic etc.)€0
Saora — done for you€0

Yearly cost compared. A custom developer? €1,500+ up front — then an invoice every time you want a price changed.

Founding pricing for the first five artists, in exchange for honest feedback. The price you join at is the price you keep.

Graduating this year? Ask about the graduate rate — €100 setup, same €120/year. Email with your school and year →

Questions artists ask

FAQ
Who owns the domain and the website?

You do. The domain is registered in your name, on your account. Your images and words are yours. If you ever want to leave, everything goes with you — there is deliberately nothing locking you in.

I'm not technical at all. Will I manage?

That's exactly who this is built for. Updating your site means editing a spreadsheet — title, price, sold — and clicking one publish button. If you can use email, you can run your site. And when in doubt, you email us.

Can I see my own work in it before paying?

Yes — send six to eight images and we'll build a free private preview with your actual paintings, no obligation. Deciding is much easier when it's your work on the screen.

I already have a website and domain. Can I switch?

Yes. Your existing domain points at the new site — nothing about your name or address changes, and your email keeps working. We handle the move.

Free preview

See your paintings in it — before you decide.

Leave your details and a link to your work. I'll build a private preview with your actual paintings — free, no obligation. Love it, and it's live on your own domain within days.

Prefer email? threeglovesdesign@gmail.com