WebsiteNewFor Painter or fine artist

Gesso

Your career, hung in order.

Keeps an artist's exhibitions, residencies, awards, commissions and publications on one timeline linked to their works, and prints a gallery-format CV.

Download the source

Zip, 267 KB. MIT licence. Built 6 Nov 2026.

Live preview

Open the appOpen full screen
Loading the live site…

This is the real site, not a mock-up. Click around; the button on it opens the working app.

What you get

Everything a website needs, already done.

Pages and screens

  • Hero gallery wall
  • How it works
  • Career timeline
  • Printable CV
  • Works
  • Live app demo

Features

  • Timeline of five entry types, each in its own colour
  • Links between each entry and the works shown in it
  • Filter by year range or entry type
  • Print-ready CV in standard gallery format
  • Free, runs in your browser, no account
  • Data stays on your device

Palette

  • #2438c2
  • #e6e9fa
  • #151515
  • #595954
  • #71716b
  • #141414

Style

  • Minimal
  • Editorial
  • Elegant
Gesso on a phone
On a phone, as shipped.

For developers

A real codebase, not a page builder export.

Stack

Vite, React 19 and TypeScript for the app. The launch page is plain HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript with no build step. Vitest for unit tests, Playwright for browser tests.

Run it

unzip gesso.zip
cd gesso
npm install
npm run dev

In the zip

  • site/ the launch page with the built app in site/app/
  • src/ and e2e/ the app source and tests
  • docs/technical-docs/ architecture, runbook, quick reference
  • START-HERE.md and LICENSE (MIT)

More like this

Also on the shelf

  • Events & CreativeWebsite

    Gatefold

    A website that shows a musician's releases as a wall of cover art, with tracklists, credits and artwork notes, plus sorting, filtering and a JSON export.

  • Events & CreativeTool

    Hangline

    Plan an exhibition wall to scale, space works evenly on an eye-line, and get exact hook positions plus a printable install sheet for the installer.

  • Events & CreativeWebsite

    Workings

    A portfolio site where each piece steps from thumbnail to final image, with notes on every stage, side-by-side comparison, and filters by technique or tool.