Artists
Portfolio and commerce experiences designed to let the work command the room — without the website getting in the way.
WEB DESIGN • SELECT PUBLISHING
Beautiful websites
for creative people.
Custom website design for artists, authors and creative businesses — with select publishing services for visually driven books.
Ideas, thoughtfully brought to life.
WEB DESIGN
Your work deserves
a better home online.
I design thoughtful, distinctive websites that put your work first. No generic agency look. No unnecessary complexity. Just a polished online presence built around who you are, what you create and where you want to go.
Whether the goal is selling artwork, presenting photography, introducing books or giving a creative business a more professional home, every site begins with the same question: what does this website actually need to accomplish?
Tell Me About Your Project →Authors
A professional home for your books, your story and everything you create next.
Creative Businesses
Clear, sophisticated websites that make your business easier to understand — and easier to choose.
SELECTED WORK
Designed with purpose.
The goal is never simply to make a website look different. The goal is to make the work easier to discover, understand, experience and act on.
Before-and-after project examples are available for redesign work.
ARTIST WEBSITE · E-COMMERCE
David Harding Art
A custom fine-art website built around the artwork itself, with simplified navigation, limited-edition print presentation, collector-list integration and direct purchase pathways.
Portfolio
Print Sales
Collector List
Mobile Design
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AUTHOR WEBSITE · REDESIGN
Margie Harding
A redesign focused on simplifying an existing author website, strengthening book presentation, improving navigation and creating a cleaner experience across desktop and mobile.
Site Redesign
Book Presentation
Navigation
Mobile Experience
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Looking for a before-and-after example?
I'm happy to walk prospective clients through the thinking behind a redesign and show what changed.THE PROCESS
Clear from the
beginning.
You don't need to arrive knowing exactly what your website should look like. That's part of the work.
Conversation
We start with your work, your audience and what you want the website to accomplish.
Direction
I organize the content, establish the structure and develop the visual direction before the site is built out.
Build
The website is designed for desktop and mobile, with clear navigation and purposeful calls to action.
Launch
After final review and revisions, the site is connected to your domain and prepared to go live.
WEBSITE PROJECTS
Built around the work.
Priced around the project.
Complete website projects for authors, artists and creative businesses currently begin at:
$2,400Final pricing depends on the size, content and functionality of the site. Third-party expenses such as hosting, domains and e-commerce services remain separate and in the client's name.
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PAINTED GATE
ART
VISUAL
STORY
SELECT
BOOKS
PAINTED GATE PUBLISHING
Where Painted Gate began.
Publishing remains part of Painted Gate, but increasingly as a selective service rather than a volume business.
The focus is moving toward thoughtfully designed art books, photography books, coffee-table books and other visually driven projects where design is an essential part of the finished work.
Discuss a Publishing Project →THE APPROACH
“Good design doesn't compete with the work.
It gives the work room to speak.”
Painted Gate brings together publishing, visual storytelling, fine-art experience and firsthand knowledge of building a creative business. The result is design that understands both the work itself and the people you're trying to reach.
START A PROJECT
Have something
worth building?
Tell me what you're working on, where you are now and what you'd like your website — or select publishing project — to accomplish.