My very good friend Dan recently became a prolific painter starting to gain traction among folk art lovers. As his work is gaining in popularity he needs a website to support his brand he tells me, something to showcase his work himself without intermediaries, containing his most recent and available pieces.

As in any art gallery, the art itself must be at the forefront to let us appreciate it as purely as intended.

This resulted in a “white wall” showing Dan’s selected works, with appropriate use of negative space while every painting remains immediately available to the audience.

An admin panel lets Dan upload and delete his artworks on demand, with an interface mirroring the simplicity of the gallery, providing an intuitive user experience.

Dan’s works are displayed and get reactions on social media or via gallery exhibitions. A prospective buyer may contact Dan via one of the galleries or directly on social media.

The sporadic nature of traffic on Dan’s website makes a serverless architecture best suited for this use case. Managed storage, database, authentication, hosting and functions allows for rapid elasticity and scalability without the overhead of managing servers, scaling and security.

A shared API backend between the gallery and admin panel ensures non-repudiation.

As the application is new and Dan’s needs are likely to evolve, a non-relational database, like Firestore, is best to record the paintings’ data, allowing the addition of details like price, collection, type, etc...