Pedri — artist portfolio platform
A multilingual gallery and custom CMS for painter Peter 'Pedri' De Ridder — an editorial, art-first site the artist runs entirely himself.
Role · Designer + engineer
What this covered
- Editorial art-direction: serif display type, generous negative space, the work always the loudest thing on the page.
- Four-language gallery (EN · NL · FR · DE) with light and dark themes.
- Filterable, searchable gallery with per-work pages and curated collections.
- Lexical-based editor + Supabase Storage so the artist publishes solo.
- Pa11y / WCAG-AA accessibility scoring built into CI.
Discipline
An artist's site, not a template
The brief was to make somewhere Pedri's work could breathe. So the design gets out of the way: a restrained serif display face, a near-black canvas, wide margins, and one accent colour used sparingly. The homepage opens on a single hero — 'Eén hand, vele werelden' (one hand, many worlds) — and lets the paintings carry the rest. Nothing on the page competes with the art.
Designed to be operated, not just admired
Every visible surface has a matching path in a dashboard the artist runs alone. A Lexical rich-text editor and a gallery uploader mean a new work, collection, exhibition or blog post goes live in minutes — no developer, no deploy. The design of the admin got as much care as the front of house, because a portfolio the owner can't update is a portfolio that dies quietly.
Four languages, one voice
The site speaks English, Dutch, French and German from a single codebase (next-intl). The switcher keeps you in place, the layout holds across languages of different lengths, and each locale is independently indexable — so a French collector and a Flemish neighbour both land somewhere that feels native.
Accessibility baked into the build
Pa11y runs WCAG checks in CI and a regression fails the build. Contrast holds in both themes, every work carries alt text, and the gallery is fully keyboard-navigable — an art site that stays open to everyone, enforced automatically rather than promised.
Screens
Home
The hero leads with type and a single work. Serif display, dark canvas, one accent — the art is the loudest element on the page.
Gallery
The full oeuvre in a filterable, searchable grid with multiple view modes. Every piece links to its own page.
Artwork page
Each work gets room of its own — large reproduction, medium and dimensions, translated captions, and its collection.
Featured works
A curated selection on the homepage, numbered and paced so the scroll reads like walking a small show.
Collections
Themed groupings — like the blue-toned works — that let a visitor follow a thread through the body of work.