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A portfolio website as good as your work.

Portfolio websites for artists, photographers, illustrators and designers. Upload your work, pick a theme, and you’re online.

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No card needed. Takes a minute.

A painter in a sunlit studio photographs her canvas of a sailing boat with her phone.
Her portfolio on the phone, in the Stack theme: the sailing-boat painting from the easel, titled Beating Upwind.
The Stack theme, on the phone of someone you just met.

You make the work; your site should just hold it up to the light. Add your images, choose a theme, share the address. Nothing else to manage. Nothing that goes out of style.

Portfolio sites for every kind of work

Each discipline gets a theme built around how it works. These are real portfolios, scrolling on their own.

Collage theme with Lucía Ferreyra’s portfolio

Collage with Lucía Ferreyra, Collage Artist, Buenos Aires

Made for the way you work.

Each of the 44 themes is built around one idea. Every one is a live site; open any of them and look around.

Grid theme Grid theme, layout only

Grid for any discipline

The classic. Even thumbnails, numbered captions, nothing in the way.

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Gallery theme Gallery theme, layout only

Gallery for photographers, painters, illustrators

Your logo above a fixed menu of collections, a clean grid of work beside it.

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Banner theme Banner theme, layout only

Banner for illustrators, painters, any discipline

One large cover image and a few words about you, then your work.

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Square theme Square theme, layout only

Square for product, still life, design

A calm, centred grid of square crops. Nothing competes with the work.

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Tiles theme Tiles theme, layout only

Tiles for illustration, pattern, print

Big square tiles in three columns, with room to breathe.

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Sidebar theme Sidebar theme, layout only

Sidebar for designers, multidisciplinary

Every project listed on the left, the work scrolling on the right.

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Split theme Split theme, layout only

Split for artists, sculptors, designers

Your words and an index of every work on the left, the images on the right.

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Board theme Board theme, layout only

Board for illustration, design, photography

Works laid out as sheets on a calm grid, with clear sans-serif captions.

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Drift theme Drift theme, layout only

Drift for mixed media, illustration, design

A composed, loosely scattered layout that still reads in order.

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Book theme Book theme, layout only

Book for photographers, series and projects

Each work as a photobook spread, paired by shape, with a quiet caption.

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Caption theme Caption theme, layout only

Caption for painting, sculpture, fine art

Each piece large, with its title, medium and size set beside it.

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Panels theme Panels theme, layout only

Panels for painters, fine art

Half-screen panels you move through sideways, one work in each.

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Portrait theme Portrait theme, layout only

Portrait for makers, textile and fine artists

You on the first screen, your selected work right after.

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Stack theme Stack theme, layout only

Stack for photography, illustration

Two columns of work at its natural proportions.

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Duo theme Duo theme, layout only

Duo for illustration, photography

Two wide columns of work at full size, edge to edge.

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Files theme Files theme, layout only

Files for identity designers, studios

Projects as rows of files, with a column switcher.

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Archive theme Archive theme, layout only

Archive for collectors, publishers, many small works

A dense catalogue wall that keeps every piece at its relative size.

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Quiet theme Quiet theme, layout only

Quiet for any discipline

Your name and a list of titles. Images appear when asked for.

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Folio theme Folio theme, layout only

Folio for graphic design, editorial

An index of projects with a preview that follows the cursor.

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Marquee theme Marquee theme, layout only

Marquee for brand and graphic designers

Your name edge to edge, then large selected projects.

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Mosaic theme Mosaic theme, layout only

Mosaic for graphic designers, illustrators

A statement, then colour-block tiles in a big-and-small rhythm.

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Specimen theme Specimen theme, layout only

Specimen for writers, type, text-heavy practices

Framed like a type specimen, for artists who write.

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Margin theme Margin theme, layout only

Margin for illustration, editorial

Warm graph paper and an editorial rhythm of large and small works.

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Corners theme Corners theme, layout only

Corners for architecture, fine art photography

Navigation in the four corners, one image in the middle.

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Headline theme Headline theme, layout only

Headline for graphic design, studios

A statement set huge, then each project as a row with its images.

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Contact theme Contact theme, layout only

Contact for photography

A dense contact sheet of numbered frames. Built for series.

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Aperture theme Aperture theme, layout only

Aperture for photography

One photograph at a time, full screen, with a frame counter.

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Runway theme Runway theme, layout only

Runway for fashion, portraits

A horizontal row of tall images behind an oversized name.

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Noir theme Noir theme, layout only

Noir for fashion, beauty, photography

Black, a full-width name and large saturated images.

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Reel theme Reel theme, layout only

Reel for creative directors

A strip of projects above a statement and an index.

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Studio theme Studio theme, layout only

Studio for videographers, commercial photographers

Work, services and clients. For people who take bookings.

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Render theme Render theme, layout only

Render for motion, 3d, film stills

Dark and cinematic, with letterboxed frames and credits.

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Plan theme Plan theme, layout only

Plan for architecture

Projects laid out on a visible drawing grid.

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Monolith theme Monolith theme, layout only

Monolith for architecture, interiors

One project per screen, split between image and text.

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Salon theme Salon theme, layout only

Salon for painting, fine art

Works hung together on a coloured gallery wall.

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Vitrine theme Vitrine theme, layout only

Vitrine for objects, sculpture

One object per screen, with a lot of space around it.

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Kiln theme Kiln theme, layout only

Kiln for ceramics, textiles, craft

Soft, warm and tactile. Staggered columns and process notes.

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Inkwell theme Inkwell theme, layout only

Inkwell for illustration

Drawings pinned loosely on warm paper, with margin notes.

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Pulp theme Pulp theme, layout only

Pulp for illustration, comics

Bold panels, thick gutters and loud colour.

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Poster theme Poster theme, layout only

Poster for graphic design, studios

Your name edge to edge. Titles set huge.

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Voltage theme Voltage theme, layout only

Voltage for bold brand designers

One loud colour of your choice and condensed headlines.

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Folders theme Folders theme, layout only

Folders for multidisciplinary

Each collection as a stacked folder of its work.

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Collage theme Collage theme, layout only

Collage for mixed media, experimental

A pile of images visitors can drag around.

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Static theme Static theme, layout only

Static for experimental

Raw HTML with blue links and nothing else.

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Show all 44 themes

Making it yours is this simple.

Change the theme with one click; your works stay where you put them. Drag a painting to change the order. That’s all there is to it. Try it on Luc Doucet’s portfolio.

CaptionEach piece large, with its title, medium and size set beside it.

  • North Atlantic, February North Atlantic, February2025Oil on linen, 100 × 70 cm
  • Fog Bank, Chebucto Head Fog Bank, Chebucto Head2026Oil and cold wax on linen, 120 × 90 cm
  • Dulse Dulse2025Oil on panel, 60 × 80 cm
  • Harbour Lights Harbour Lights2024Oil and cold wax on linen, 90 × 60 cm
  • Tidal Flat, Gold Leaf Tidal Flat, Gold Leaf2024Oil and gold leaf on panel, 60 × 40 cm
  • Boathouse, Lunenburg Boathouse, Lunenburg2023Oil on linen, 80 × 80 cm
  • Slate Shore Slate Shore2023Oil on linen, 100 × 130 cm
  • Low Tide, Ketch Harbour Low Tide, Ketch Harbour2022Oil and cold wax on panel, 50 × 40 cm
  • Snow on the Breakwater Snow on the Breakwater2021Oil on linen, 70 × 50 cm

Six of 44 themes. Luc is made up; the paintings are stand-ins.

What we hold to.

  1. (01) Your work, not our brand

    Themes are quiet frames. No pop-ups, no ads, no “powered by” banner across your pictures, only a small Semirare link in the footer. Visitors remember you.

  2. (02) Sharp on every screen

    Upload the full-size file. Semirare makes a version for every screen, up to 2600 pixels on the long edge, and sends each visitor the one that fits.

  3. (03) Found by the people looking for you

    Page titles, descriptions, image text and link previews are written from your titles and About page. Every work gets a clean address, like /harbour-dawn.

  4. (04) Leave anytime

    Your images are yours. Download everything and close your account whenever you want; nothing is held back.

Get started, it’s free

No card needed. Takes a minute.

Two plans. That’s all.

No add-ons, no bandwidth bills, no price that doubles after the first year.

Free

For getting started, and for small bodies of work.

$0

  • Up to 12 works
  • Every theme
  • yourname.semirare.com
  • Your own domain, with HTTPS
  • Contact form and inbox
  • PDFs of your work to send, with a share link
Start free

Pro

For working artists with a growing archive.

$6 / month, billed yearly

  • Unlimited works
  • Password-protected pages
  • $8 month to month
Start free, upgrade later

Questions

Do I need to know any code?

No. You upload images, type titles and click a theme. There is nothing to install or update.

Can I use my own domain?

Yes, on every plan, including Free. Add one DNS record at your registrar and we take care of HTTPS. Until then your site lives at yourname.semirare.com.

What happens when I go over 12 works?

Nothing disappears. Your site keeps working; you just can’t add a 13th work until you upgrade or remove one.

Can I send my work as a PDF?

Yes. Pick the works, add a cover and a short letter, choose a layout and download a PDF, or send a link instead. Show prices to a collector and leave them out for an open call; each PDF is saved, so you can change it and send it again.

Can I change themes later?

Anytime, as often as you like. Your works, collections and pages stay the same; only the design changes.

Who owns my work?

You do. We only store and show your images on your site. You can download everything and close your account whenever you want.

Will my images be compressed?

Resized for each screen, not crushed. We keep your original file and make sharp versions from it, up to 2600 pixels wide.

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