AI Web MakerArtist Website Example: Mara Quinn Studio
This artist website belongs to Mara Quinn Studio, the invented studio of a painter of the coast. It shows one painter's way of selling work and taking commissions from a single page: originals and signed prints with prices and options, a large canvas sold by enquiry, print sizes and editions, a commission process in five steps and an enquiry form.
Mara Quinn is not a real painter: her canvases, her collectors' reviews, the print prices and the studio's phone number were all imagined for this page.
Painters are often told that their website should be a portfolio, but a portfolio on its own rarely sells a painting. The sample treats the page as a studio with a shop in it, so the opening view pairs the painter at her easel with a close view of the paint and two buttons, one to buy and one to commission. Originals and signed prints come straight after, each with its medium, size, price and a choice of delivery, print size or frame. The one large canvas has no price and shows an Enquire button, because work at that scale is usually sold after a conversation. A website for a painter that sells this plainly still feels like the artist's own room rather than a catalogue.
The middle of the page answers the questions collectors tend to keep to themselves. A short studio section explains where the paintings begin, what they are made with and how long the artist has worked on one stretch of coast. A print table then sets out sizes in centimetres and inches, edition numbers and prices, which settles doubts about value and scarcity. Five commission steps, from the first description of a place to the delivered canvas, show the deposit, the studies and the timescale before anyone writes in. Placed in that order, the sections let a reader move from admiring the work to owning or commissioning it.
Canvas by canvas: the parts of a painter's page
Mara Quinn's page hangs in this order, from the easel at the top to the boat shed address at the foot.
| Page | What it opens with | Its sections |
|---|---|---|
| Opening view | Paint that holds the weather | See the paintings · How commissions work · Two framed photographs |
| Shop | Paintings and prints | Squall Over the Point $2,400 · Low Light, Harbour Wall $680 · Morning Haar from $95 · Ebb Line from $95 · Dune Study $320 · Breakwater in Rain by enquiry |
| Studio | Painted outside first, finished in the boat shed | Panels on the headland · Eleven years on one coast · Materials |
| Print editions | Print sizes and editions | A3, A2 and A1 · Centimetres and inches · Editions of 75, 50 and 25 |
| Commissions | How a commission is painted | Enquiry · Visit and studies · Agreement · Painting · Delivery |
| Paintings at home | On other people's walls | Living room · Hallway · Office · Open studio |
| Questions | Questions collectors ask | Seeing work first · Shipping · Print accuracy · Places · Studies · Varnish |
| Enquiry form | Ask about a commission or a painting | What you are looking for · Rough size · Budget · Wanted by · The place or the mood |
| Contact | The studio by the shore | Write or call · Studio hours · Studio letters |
Easel to wall: what a painter's page has to hold
Prices on the work that can be bought today
Collectors who reach a painter's site are often ready to buy, and a missing price sends many of them away without a word. Smaller originals and prints should carry the medium, the size and the price on the card, with any choice such as print size or frame made before the piece goes in the bag. A store built with AI Web Maker handles those options, adds the delivery fee at checkout and can take discount codes for an open studio weekend. Showing prices plainly does not cheapen the work, because it signals that the artist sells regularly. A visible price turns a quiet admirer into a buyer without the awkwardness of having to ask.
One large canvas, held back for a conversation
Large originals are where an artist's prices are set, and they deserve a slower kind of sale. A card with no price shows an Enquire button that opens the enquiry form, so the collector can ask about a viewing, a budget or the room the painting is for. That conversation protects the price and often leads to a second sale or a commission. On AI Web Maker the same shop can hold priced prints and an unpriced canvas side by side. Mixing the two lets a painter serve the casual buyer and the serious collector on a single page.
An edition table that proves the prints are worth keeping
Print buyers want to know how many copies exist and what paper they are printed on before they pay. A table with each size in centimetres and inches, its edition and its price answers both questions without a paragraph of explanation. A note on signing, numbering and never reprinting completes the reassurance. Collectors abroad also use the inch sizes to plan frames before the print arrives. An artist website that publishes these facts plainly sells prints as objects worth keeping rather than as posters.
Commission steps with the deposit and the weeks written down
Commissions are the largest sales most painters make, and people hesitate because they cannot picture the process. Five steps, from describing the place to delivery, show where the studies come in and when the price is agreed. Stating the deposit, the number of commissions each season and the usual weeks sets expectations before the first message. The enquiry form then asks for the size, the budget and the place in words, which gives the artist enough to reply properly. A commission process written out this clearly brings enquiries from people who are already halfway to yes.
Paintings shown in rooms, not only on white walls
Buyers find it hard to imagine a painting at home from a flat image on a screen. A few photographs of work hanging in living rooms, hallways and offices show the scale and how the colours behave in daylight. The studio section adds the story of where the paintings start, which gives a collector something to tell visitors about the work. Example reviews from people who bought or commissioned complete the picture without the artist praising her own work. These details make a painter's website feel like an invitation rather than a sales pitch.
How Mara Quinn Studio reads to search engines
Collectors search by subject, medium and place, with phrases such as original seascape oil painting, signed coastal art prints or commission a painting of a place. Naming each work by subject and medium in plain words lets an artist's page meet those searches far better than a portfolio of untitled images.
Put your own canvases and editions online
Tell the builder what you paint and list a few canvases with prices, and it lays out product cards, a bag, print size choices and an Enquire button for anything too large to price. Arranging and previewing the pages are never billed; when the studio's site opens, hosting runs at $19 each month or $119 for twelve months, with the domain bought apart.
Prices, prints and commissions: painters' questions
Is Mara Quinn a painter whose work can be found elsewhere?
No, she is invented, along with her paintings, her collectors and her boat shed. Every line, from the studio story to the varnish answer, was written by hand by AI Web Maker's own writers, and the platform's image engine painted the canvases and the boat shed seen in the photographs. A real artist's site starts from the builder's draft, written from the artist's own description, and every word and picture can be replaced.
How do buyers choose a print size on a site like this?
Each print card carries a size option that the buyer picks before the print goes in the bag, and the edition table on the page shows what each size costs. At checkout the delivery fee is added to the order, and a code for an open studio weekend can take something off the total.
Should a painter publish prices at all?
For prints and smaller originals, yes, because many buyers will not ask. Large canvases can be sold by enquiry instead, with an Enquire button in place of the price, so the artist can talk about the work before naming a figure.
What would a studio like this pay each year to be online?
Twelve months of hosting cost $119, or a painter can pay $19 month by month, and the domain is extra, picked from roughly 400 endings. Building and previewing are never billed.
Updated 6 November 2026 · by AI Web Maker · More creative lifestyle website guides · All sample websites