Into the studio
The About page opens on a full-width film of the artist’s studio, framed works on a plywood wall, before the artist statement begins.
- Client
- Robert Lee Davis, artist
- Website
- robertleedavis.art
- Platform
- WordPress, custom theme
A painter’s world, laid out like a panorama
Robert Lee Davis is a mixed media painter who lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. His layered paintings and collages, built from old texts, maps and found objects, explore memory, history and place. He has been shortlisted for the Omnia Art Prize, the Glover Art Prize and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Spaghetti Weston designed and built a custom WordPress theme for the site, and hosts it. The theme gives the artworks room to breathe, and brings his paintings, workshops, courses and talks together in one place.
Quiet greys and coastal blues
A soft, near-black and grey palette keeps the pages calm around busy, colourful collages, with sky and powder blues for links and the Contact button, and a deep teal for the talks.
- Ink#3C3C3C
Body text, at 84% black
- Graphite#5D5D5D
Futura page titles
- Deep teal#1C7780
Titles of the filmed talks
- Sky blue#6FA7CB
Links within the text
- Powder blue#97C0D7
The Contact button
- Mist#F7F7F7
Cards and tile labels
Futura capitals, generous text
Bold Futura capitals give page titles a confident, modernist voice, a widely tracked Montserrat menu sits lightly across the top of every page, and Open Sans keeps the artist statement and biography easy to read.
Three ways in
Large artwork tiles lead to the three sides of the practice: the paintings, the workshops and the courses, each labelled in Futura on a pale panel.
Room for the panoramas
The Life Landscapes series is shown at its true, extra-wide proportions, one panorama above another, so the long horizons read as they do on the wall.
Series side by side
Each series, from Mirrored Landscapes to Urban Dreams and Small Works, has its own heading and an even, uncluttered layout.
A lightbox for close looking
Any work opens full screen in a lightbox, with a strip of thumbnails for moving through the rest of the series.
Talks on film
Filmed talks, including two TEDx talks, sit in pale cards with deep teal titles and a short description of each.
Designed for phones too
On a phone the opening painting fills the screen, the menu opens as a clean full-screen list with the Contact button beneath it, and the panoramas stack into a single scrolling column.
Collage at every scale
From mirrored cityscapes to long Life Landscapes panoramas, the artworks carry the colour while the site stays quiet around them.
Design, build and hosting from one studio
Spaghetti Weston designs, builds and hosts websites for artists, museums and heritage projects, with hosting powered by 100% renewable energy.
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