9 of the best Squarespace templates for artists, painters, photographers, and other creatives

Helmed by a stunning full-bleed landing page, Quincy is an elegant template for working photographers that lets you showcase your work and book shoots. After clicking through to your portfolio, visitors can hover over project titles to see featured full-bleed images that link out to scrollable galleries. Its demo site also comes with About and Bookings pages; the latter has a pre-formatted Acuity Scheduling block that lets clients request different kinds of sessions on your calendar and submit contact information.

Honorable mentions: Elliot (7.1), Forte (7.0), Laurie (7.1), Ortiz (7.1), Reseda (7.1), and Tepito (7.1).

Wells is a portfolio template that's been around for the better part of a decade, and it's a perennial favorite among painters and other creatives for good reason: It's simple and great for scrollable galleries, with clickable thumbnails that pull up larger images with titles and captions. It is built on Squarespace version 7.0 (with no 7.1 counterpart), which might deter some users. But to it's credit, its still quite flexible: You get support for store pages, events pages, and blogs (with sidebars!) to flesh out your site further.

Honorable mentions: Beaumont (7.1), Flatiron (7.0), Matsuya (7.1), Minetta (7.1), and Pazari (7.1).

Individual artists may be able to make do with a simple one or two-page website, but if your art studio needs a more robust website, then Sackett is a great choice. With Sackett, potential customers can easily book a consultation with your studio using a widget built into the template. The template also comes with pages for a gallery, services page, and about us page. The homepage even has a space for you to include testimonials, which can be a great trust signal for first-time visitors.

If your art studio sells goods, then Squarespace makes it easy to add an online store to your new website. While playing around with this Squarespace theme, we were able to add a digital storefront with just a few clicks (although adding products and entering prices will require some extra work). This Squarespace template also puts visuals front and center, which is great for artists who love to show off their work and studio space. One word of warning — if you don't have lots of high-quality photographs you can incorporate into your design, then we recommend choosing an alternative theme.

Overall, this is a flexible and easy-to-customize template that's perfect for art studios.

Honorable mentions: Pedro (7.0), Ortiz (7.1), Novo (7.1), and Rotate (7.1).

Featuring a similar (but bolder) black-and-white color scheme, Novo is a more modern portfolio template with grid of individual project thumbnails on its homepage. Each of those thumbnails populates a title when hovered over, and link out to separate blog-style pages where you can go deeper on your creative processes and add full-width images. Social icons for your Dribbble, Vimeo, and Instagram have already been placed in the top and bottom navigation menus. It's a fairly basic template overall, but that's a good thing: It won't distract from the logos and branding concepts you're trying to show off.

Honorable mentions: Jasper (7.0), Kester (7.1) and York (7.0).

Web designers who need an online home for their work can get a site up and running in no time with Nolan, a portfolio template that makes it easy to organize and emphasize a ton of information and imagery. (The demo version was actually formatted with a web design agency in mind.) Its scrollable homepage features calls-to-action for a services list, work samples, a featured case study (with a cool full-bleed photo background), and a contact form, plus a quick overview of past clients you've worked with. You also get a pre-made bio page, which is linked to in the top navigation menu. Bonus points for its chic black-on-white color scheme, which will appeal to Dark Mode users.

Honorable mentions: Bergen (7.1), Cami (7.1), Hawley (7.1), Henson (7.0), and Utica (7.1).

Sundew is a funky template built specifically for podcasts that has an ombre, retro-inspired color scheme and fun rise animation effects. Its comprehensive homepage starts off with a featured section for your latest episode and a banner with your tagline, followed by a grid of past episodes with thumbnails, a newsletter sign-up block on top of a full-bleed photo banner, and a brief bio that links out to your contact info. Each episode gets its own separate page, complete with a pre-formatted audio block (though you could easily scrap those and turn it into a one-pager, if you felt so inclined). Links to Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts listings have already been added to the lower navigation.

Honorable mention: Paloma (7.1).

Another dark and moody theme, Kitsui is a ready-made template for musicians that puts your latest release front and center on its homepage. Scrolling down a ways brings visitors to a handful of upcoming show/event dates, with more found under the "Tour" tab, plus a prompt to subscribe to your newsletter. You can list your merch in its pre-made store page (see also: Squarespace's new on-demand custom merch tool) and link out to your Instagram, Twitter, SoundCloud, and YouTube in the top navigation.

Honorable mentions: Cruz (7.1), Horizon (7.0), Jasonwild (7.1), Juke (7.0), Polaris (7.0), Vandam (7.1), and Waverly (7.1).

Platforms like Etsy, Society6, and Redbubble make it easy to sell prints online, but their high seller fees and steep competition are two excellent reasons to look into a self-managed site on Squarespace as an alternative. Spotted is a chic, visual-heavy ecommerce template that's pre-designed for selling artwork and taking commissions: Its homepage has a striking full-bleed banner image overlaid with your artist statement, followed by featured images of pieces from different series, thumbnails of popular work, a prompt to visit your About page, and a newsletter sign-up block. Other highlights include a cool zoom-in effect on product images and a page with Framing & Mounting options (which you can simply delete if you don't offer those services).

Honorable mentions: Indigo (7.0), Jotterpress (7.1), Maru (7.1), and Montclaire (7.1).

Informative and inviting, Passero is one of the few Squarespace templates that comes pre-enabled with the platform's premium Member Areas feature, which lets you put some of your site's content behind a paywall (as subscriptions or one-time payments). This makes it incredibly easy to offer virtual art classes and other digital content that involves visual instructions or demonstrations. Also of note: Passero is one of the only Squarespace templates that includes video in its demo, which is a dynamic and engaging effect. Beyond that, it earns points for its inclusion of full-bleed visuals, earthy color scheme, and plethora of calls-to-action.

Honorable mentions: Alignflow (7.1), Comet (7.1), and Growwell (7.1). Check out our dedicated guide to Squarespace templates for video to learn more.