Artist Portfolio — IstanbulVisit live site ↗
at a glance
Five paintings, entered as rooms — an artist's site built as an exhibition, not a grid.
problem
Melis Tör's paintings ask for time. A conventional portfolio grid — thumbnails, a lightbox, a next arrow — flattens that into scanning.
The site had to do what a good gallery does: give each work its own wall and its own pacing, then get out of the way.
approach
Structured the site as five rooms, one per painting, entered in sequence rather than skimmed from an index.
Kept the chrome silent — type, spacing, and slow transitions do the framing; nothing competes with the canvas.
Built the pacing to survive reduced motion: with animation off, the rooms still read as rooms.
outcome
Live. A site that treats viewing as the point, not a step before contact.