“These themes are hand-picked for their outstanding design quality, features, and customer reviews.”
Ready to share your art with the world?
Social media sites like Instagram and Pinterest are great for getting people to see your work, but you need your own site if you want to be taken seriously as a professional.
The biggest benefit of having your own website is that you own it 100%, unlike social media profiles, and you have total control over how your work is presented.
Even better, many of these themes include eCommerce support so that you can sell both digital and physical products directly from your website.
You may also enjoy our collection of gallery themes and the best portfolio WP themes.
Best WordPress themes for painters
These themes are responsive, so they look great on mobile devices. Visitors can browse your artwork and even buy paintings and have them shipped to their homes, all from their smartphones.
Here are my top picks for best artist WordPress themes for 2022.
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1. Red Art by designthemes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
Red Art is a beautiful theme for showcasing your artwork and building your personal brand.
This theme uses a dark background, which helps your art to pop off the screen. It also includes full-screen background images and sliders and a huge variety of customizable portfolio layouts. You’ll have no trouble finding excellent ways to share your artwork.
The Red Art theme includes many advanced customization features like the 8 header variations, more than 20+ color skins, WooCommerce integration, and more than $50+ worth of premium plugins bundled for free.
Overall, Red Art is an awesome theme for artists, whether you’re a photographer, painter, designer, or tattoo artist.
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2. Artday by Woss Themes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
If you’re looking for a more sophisticated design, you need to give Artday a look. This WordPress theme for artists has an elegant aesthetic with lots of white space, simple layouts, and a minimal color palette that make it a strong choice for a fine art website.
Artday will be an effective theme for an artist looking to generate sales with their site. While all of the themes here have nice layouts for artwork portfolios, Artday emphasizes the eCommerce store (powered by WooCommerce). Since the shop is also laid out like an online art gallery, there’s no reason to list your paintings without the price and purchase buttons.
The eCommerce product pages are well-designed in Artday. You can add multiple photographs of each painting, and visitors can click them to view a larger version in a lightbox. They’ll also find related work below to assist with browsing. This theme wouldn’t handle hundreds of paintings well, but the design will work perfectly for a small body of work for an individual artist.
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3. Divi by Elegant Themes
Theme Description
Divi is a supremely customizable theme that pairs with its own page builder plugin. The screenshot featured here shows off one of the pre-made pages for an art show, but Divi can create any design you can imagine.
As a visual and creative person, you might enjoy Divi more than any other theme because of its purely visual approach. Instead of using options panels and admin menus, you’ll build your site as you view it with the drag-and-drop editor. Divi has dozens of modules available for adding images, text, contact forms, and so much more.
If you want to create a website to show off your art and upcoming exhibits you’re featured in, Divi could be the best theme for you.
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4. Astra by Brainstorm Force
Theme Description
With Astra, you can create absolutely gorgeous websites for any topic or niche you want. What makes this theme so different is that it’s entirely free. Using the free version of Astra and the free Elementor plugin, you can use the pre-made templates to quickly build a professional website and tweak every design detail without ever writing any code.
If you want additional options to customize the header and footer of the site, or if you want to use one of the premium templates, you can purchase one of the upgrades, which includes template bundles. You’ll have dozens of templates to choose from, all of which can be inserted into your site in minutes to create an entirely new design.
If you build websites for a living or have more than a couple of sites of your own, using Astra will make you much more efficient and capable of creating amazing designs without editing any PHP or CSS yourself.
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5. Artist by Kamleshyadav (Themeforest)
Theme Description
Artist is a great theme for showcasing your artwork and building your profile as an artist. It has a portfolio layout and even an eCommerce store you can use to sell your paintings.
The homepage features a large slider followed by a few different sections. You can promote services, show off your latest work, and add quotes from prior clients. Thanks to the built-in page builder, you can remove and rearrange any of these sections using a simple drag-and-drop interface.
Artist integrates with the popular WooCommerce plugin for adding eCommerce support. This makes selling your art surprisingly easy and accessible. This is a simple theme to use and set up and will be a great choice for artists, photographers, and painters.
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6. Illustrator by Edge Themes (Themeforest)
Theme Description
Illustrator is a gorgeous theme for illustrators and graphic designers. While the screenshot above showcases this theme’s ability to develop a personal brand, many other designs focus more on the art.
Besides the beautiful aesthetic, Illustrator stands out with its incredible flexibility. Don’t just use the screenshot here as the sole example of how this theme can look. There are 15 demo sites, and each one looks significantly different from the rest. You can create a site that looks exactly how you want with Illustrator.
As an artsy theme, Illustrator doesn’t disappoint when it comes to the portfolio and gallery templates. There are more than ten different designs you can use to show off your art. There are masonry-style grids for projects and all sorts of creative templates for images from individual projects.
Illustrator is so flexible because it comes bundled with the Visual Composer plugin (normally $59). This plugin lets you create your own templates using a drag-and-drop system. It also comes with Slider Revolution for creating image sliders. It’s an incredibly advanced plugin that gives you control over all aspects of the slider design, including the text position, colors, and animations.
Which theme for painters is best for you?
If you plan on building more than one website and want extreme customization flexibility, Divi might be the best choice because of its advanced visual building plugin.
Red Art earned a top recommendation in this collection for its excellent design and customizability.
Lastly, if you want to build many websites and prefer the Elementor page builder plugin over the Divi builder, Astra is the perfect theme for you due to its deep integration with Elementor and dozens of template packs.
Thanks for browsing these artist WordPress themes, and if you found a template you like, then share this post to help others find one too.
Ben Sibley
Ben Sibley is a WordPress theme designer & developer, and founder of Compete Themes.