Start with the artist.
Build around the paintings, their stories and a personal conversation with the people who connect with them.
Selected work / Rolandas Žigonis
An artist’s world, beautifully connected.
A bespoke gallery that invites a closer look. A mobile app that brings the website into the studio.
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A closer look at the finished website.
- Client / project
- Rolandas Žigonis
- Launched
- 7 September 2026
- What I delivered
- Strategy, bespoke design and development, mobile integration, SEO and AI discoverability
- Available in
- English and Lithuanian
The project
A gallery for visitors. A working tool for the artist.
The rebuild connects discovery, close-up viewing and direct enquiries with the way Rolandas works on his phone. Every part was designed around his paintings, his audience and the practical work of keeping a portfolio alive.
Visitors get space to explore. Rolandas gets a direct route from the studio to the website, without a separate computer-and-editing routine.
The starting point
He came for SEO. We rebuilt the experience.
Rolandas asked me to improve the search visibility of his existing website. After reviewing it, I recommended a complete rebuild. The presentation of the paintings, the site structure and the way it worked needed to move forward together.
It also needed to work for the person behind the paintings. Sharing a work in progress meant finding photographs, transferring them to a computer, preparing the files and adding them to the website. That was too much administration for something happening naturally in the studio.
Give the work its space.
Create an individual visual identity, with layouts that respect the artwork’s proportions.
Make it useful every day.
Bring enquiries and publishing to the artist’s phone.
Explore the capabilities
Designed for looking. Built for doing.
The gallery experience
The same painting. A different feeling.
White, charcoal or forest green. Visitors choose the surroundings in which they see each painting. The choice follows them through the website and into the image viewer.
Try the backgrounds below. This example demonstrates the choices available on the finished website.
Look closer ↗A bespoke lightbox, explained simply
A larger view opens over the page, so you can inspect a painting without losing your place. It preserves the artwork’s proportions and puts the picture first.
On the client’s website, a desktop magnifying tool lets visitors inspect individual areas of the canvas. Portrait, landscape and multi-panel works retain their own shape.
The mobile studio
A studio in his pocket.
Rolandas can answer painting enquiries and publish progress directly from the mobile app. The system prepares uploaded images for the website automatically.
From interest to conversation
- A visitor asks about a painting.
The enquiry carries the selected painting’s context.
- A push notification arrives.
Rolandas sees the new enquiry on his phone.
- He replies inside the app.
The conversation stays personal, exactly as he wanted.
From studio to painting story
- Capture a moment.
A photograph, short video or note records a stage of the painting’s development.
- Add it to the work in progress.
The system prepares the uploaded images automatically.
- Publish from the phone.
The artist chooses which stages and thoughts to share.
These steps describe the implemented workflows. Sales are handled through personal enquiries, with no online checkout or booking system.
Exhibitions and events
A living record of exhibitions.
A bespoke events system brings upcoming exhibitions, a calendar and an archive together. Event cards with video play a preview on hover, giving a sense of the occasion before opening the full page.
Each exhibition has room for its dates, location, photographs and story. The structure supports both the next event and the growing record of the artist’s public work.
Look closer ↗Languages, search and stories
Two languages, one body of work.
English and Lithuanian versions share synchronised paintings and video media. The artist can maintain his collection without treating every media update as two separate jobs.
A structure search can understand.
Descriptive content, metadata, canonical URLs, language links, structured data and an XML sitemap give search engines a clear route through the work. A readable content index also supports AI tools exploring the website.
These are foundations for discovery. They do not guarantee rankings or recommendations from AI services.
Stories beyond the studio.
“Paintings That Found a Home” was built for stories about art in real rooms, with dedicated pages for relevant search topics. At our October 2026 review, the section was ready for its first stories.
A closer look
Different pages. One considered experience.
The homepage introduces the artist through words and film. Beyond it, the layouts change to suit paintings, personal history and exhibitions. Open an image to inspect the larger capture.
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Look closer ↗Look closer ↗Performance in view
Expressive. And measured.
The supplied mobile PageSpeed report is green across all four categories. The figures below match that screenshot.
98Performance / 100
96Accessibility / 100
100Best practices / 100
100SEO / 100
Look closer ↗The original supplied report. Its test date is not visible.
A separate homepage test on 10 October 2026 returned 100 performance, 96 accessibility, 100 best practices and 100 SEO.
Scope: homepage, mobile lab tests. Scores can vary between runs. These figures measure technical checks, not search positions, enquiries or sales.
Your project
A better experience. A simpler working day.
A gallery that reflects the artist, and tools that fit his practice. Need a website that is as useful behind the scenes as it is in front?
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