A Web Designer for Fine Artist
- iamteejay
- Oct 9
- 10 min read
Updated: Oct 10
Designing Announcements, Catalogs, and Websites for the Fine Artist
Upon our arrival in Los Angeles in 1998, during the dot-com boom, we launched a campaign offering ten free websites to anyone who wanted one. It was our way to get to know people in town. With one phone call from Craig Stephens, a writer for an art magazine who wrote pieces to promote local artists' work, we landed our first LA-based client. This set of fine artist clients would connect us to numerous opportunities that would sustain our business for the next thirty years.
Meet Our Fine Artist
These fine artists are listed in the order we had them in our studio.
Robert Reynolds
Client: 1999 – 2010
Robert Reynolds was the first to be introduced to us by Craig. Craig had set up a meeting at Robert’s Art District warehouse studio loft. At the time, Robert’s work surrounded two themes: historical artifacts and Venetian cultural recreations.
Our first project was to create a postcard and a half-page ad to promote his exhibit “Sinking Sculptures,” which centered around an interpretation of the lost battleships of World War.
Over the next few years, we would create collateral, design, and publish an art book, as well as produce a website to promote his newest artwork, which centered around neon lights and serial/cereal killers.
About Robert
Robert Reynolds is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist. He works in many mediums and styles, finding inspiration from nature, humanity, war, and history. His artistic nature can be described as always experimenting, mastering, and moving forward. In his studio, located right on the corner of 4th and Spring in Downtown Los Angeles, you can find him painting a photo-realistic forest scene with his fingers in a matter of minutes, carefully mixing and assembling cardboard, sawdust, and branches into his next canvas, to playing with vibrant color and sprinkling a little humor into a new series dedicated to a dancer. From solemn to carefree, and from appreciation of life and nature to acknowledgment of war and destruction, Reynolds serves as an educator to all through his expressionism. His paintings and massive sculptural installations of planes, boats, and automobiles have been shown around the U.S. and featured in the Pergamon Museum in Germany.
Visit Robert's Instagram page
Jeremy Kidd
Client: 1999 – Current
Jeremy Kidd was the second to be introduced to us by Craig. Jeremy’s studio was a few blocks over from ours in Venice Beach, and we agreed to visit him at his. At the time, Jeremy was very interested in digital applications and developing a website for his fine art work.
Instead of hiring us to build a website for him, we ended up showing him how to make one from scratch. The collaboration went so well that we decided to start our own design firm, called Digidome Designs.
We prospered until 9/11. We resumed running IAMTEEJAY and retained Jeremy as a client, a relationship that continues to this day.
About Jeremy
Jeremy Kidd, born April 1, 1962, is a British-born contemporary artist, who does paintings, sculptures, installation art, and photography. He is the grandson of artists Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. In the early eighties, when Kidd was in art school, he was given the assignment to photographically document a walk through a park using multiple shots to convey the scene. This and David Hockney's collages gave him the idea to manipulate digital photography via Photoshop in a similar way, but to take it one step further by blending and molding these shots together. Hence, he created Day through Night transitional works with uneven outlines that reflected the reassembly of many images, as seen in his piece Desert to Palm (2004), the first one of this series, which was inspired by the poem Ariel by Sylvia Plath and shown in a group exhibition “Crazy Thoughts Have Quick Wings” at Cirrus Gallery, curated by art critic Eve Wood. This new approach in photography was also presented in his one-person shows, including “Fictional Realities” at Laguna Art Museum, CA 2007, “Hyper Architectural Typologies” at UCR, the California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, CA, 2008 and “Fictional Realities” at Fahey Klein Gallery, CA.
More on Jeremy Kidd and Digidome Designs here:
Check out Jeremy's complete collection of work
Catherine Kanner
Client: 2000 – Current
During our time with Jeremy Kidd and Digidome, we were teaching Digital Media at the Otis College of Art and Design when we met Catherine Kanner, who taught illustration on campus. Initially, Catherine did not need any work for herself, but she needed someone to design, develop, and launch her husband’s architecture firm and a newly established Los Angeles Ballet company.
Over the years, we provided services for her handmade book publishing, which included her illustrations and design, as well as the official site of the Los Angeles Ballet. We eventually developed a website that showcased her graphic design, illustration, and a range of other art-oriented services.
About Catherine
Catherine Kanner is an award-winning designer, creative director and iIllustrator working in Los Angeles, California. She has designed and illustrated more than 40 books including her own texts. She served as Design Director for Los Angeles Ballet from the company’s inception through August, 2022, and has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Opinion Section - with her editorial illustrations syndicated to 2,000 newspapers in the U.S. and 1,000 worldwide. Catherine has won numerous illustration and design awards including the Society of Newspaper Design Award, Print’s Regional Design Award, the Louie Award and Rounce & Coffin Awards for excellence in book design. Catherine was been inducted in the Album Cover Hall of Fame her cover for Bob Dylan’s Slow Train Coming.
Check out her publishing company, The Melville Press
Visit her site
David Eddington
Client: 2000 – 2018
Jeremy Kidd, a British-born, was friends with over a dozen British fine artists, and our first introduction was to David Eddington.
We provided David with services to maintain his Squarespace website on multiple occasions over the next several years.
About David
David Eddington was born in London, UK. He studied at the Central School of Art in Holborn, London and Trent University, Nottingham; graduating with a MFA in Fine Art he lived variously in Southern India, Italy, Somerset and London.
His practice as a visual artist has been consistent; as a frequent exhibitor with Gallery Siâu in Amsterdam, he has also had regular shows in Spain and England also many exhibitions in the US. He has work in museums in the UK and Italy.
Eddington was a tenured professor at Plymouth University’s School of Art, Devon, UK, then he relocated to the USA in 2000. Initially based in New Orleans, he lectured at Loyola University and LSU Baton Rouge, while continuing his creative practice.
At present he lives in Los Angeles, where Eddington continues to exhibit his work extensively, primarily large scale paintings in both acrylic and oils.
Visit Dave’s website at
David French
Client: 2008 – Current
Our following introduction was to a Brit, David French. David’s art was a mix of industrial sculptures, stone busts, and paintings.
We have provided David with several websites and services to maintain them. With David still in our studio, we are always excited to see his newer work.
David French was born in Stockton Upon Tees, England, studied for an MA in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, and for a BA Honors, First Class, at Manchester Polytechnic. Today, he works out of his studio in Los Angeles. He has shown in and around Los Angeles and Orange County, as well as Japan and Belgium. He is involved with Durden and Ray, which is an up-and-coming artist-run gallery here in LA.
Visit David’s website at
Lani Meltzer
Client: 2002– 2005
Lani resided in the same Art District Warehouse as Robert Reynolds. We were introduced to her by Robert during a routine visit to check up on his work. Lani herself was a painter. Her work was colorful and bordered on adult-natured themes, intertwined with the fantastical.
We designed ads for her art shows and produced an animated Flash-driven website to promote her work online.
Visit her page on our site to view more of her work:
Jason Tucker
Client: 2002– 2003
We were introduced to Jason through Lani at an Art District Warehouse art show. Jason’s Actual Contact project has been a lifelong focus. His work started with sketches reminiscent of ancient American continent hieroglyphics and an alien language.
We were hired to produce a website that showcased his series of 50+ pieces without a statement, description, and dialogue, leaving the artwork to express themselves.
Years later, he had taken his work to a grander scale by producing monuments to several of his hieroglyphics.
Check out his work here:
Diana Folsom
Client: 2003 – Current
Diana was referred to us by both Jeremy Kidd and Catherine Kanner. At the time, Diana's "Woman as River" work featured paintings that resembled a woman's body of water surrounded by land.
Diana hired us to design and maintain a website for her. She has been in our studio since and enjoys publishing her newer "Oklahoma" and "Star Flower & Earth Vortex" series.
Diana Folsom was born and raised in California and is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She comes from quiet, hard-working people. Her father’s family was part of the Choctaws’ third migration from Oklahoma to California, and her mother’s family moved from West Texas to California. She grew up in San Diego, went to graduate school in NYC, lived and worked in Los Angeles, California, and recently moved to Oklahoma. She earned a BA in Art from San Diego State University and an MA in Creative Art - Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York. In addition to her artistic endeavors, she was on staff at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for 22 years and is now at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Visit Diana's website at
Richard Patterson
Client: 2003 – 2023
Richard, a carpenter and woodsmith, and his wife Joan, a sculptor, were introduced to us by Jeremy. Richard's work was well received nationally and was getting a lot of press, but he still didn't have a website.
Instead of building a site for himself, he wanted it to highlight the collaboration between him and his wife, JoAnn, which they named Clay and Wood.
Over the years, we have provided updates and upgrades to their boutique site.
Visit their site:
JoAnn Patterson
Client: 2003 – 2023
Richard is survived by JoAnn Patterson, who has taken over the curation of Clay and Wood.
Visit their site:
Caroline PM Jones
Client: 2014– 2014, 2022–2024
Caroline, another compatriot of Jeremy’s, came to us under two different circumstances. The first instance was early in our time in Los Angeles, when Caroline acquired our services to maintain her Squarespace website.
More recently, Caroline embarked on a mission to offer digital, land, and stone memorials to those who have lost loved ones. Alongside a team of developers, marketeers, and artists, we helped design, develop, launch, and maintain her digitalandstone.com website.
About Caroline
Briton Caroline PM Jones is an Artist and Sculptor, and Memorialist based in California. Her process of creation has come from journeys taken both literal and allegorical, across land, across surfaces and through the mind. She has had studios in Europe and Asia and America and featured in Public and private collections, exhibitions and Art fairs for more than 30 years. Her technique has always been traditional with hundreds of sketching and plein air painting as the starting point. Jones has explored the disruption and beauty of motherhood, distant and ancient lands, surfaces and formations and landscapes of the mind.
Please take a moment to review her work here:
If you have lost a love one, I recommend a consideration of her services here:
Raffaella Martini Pandozy
Client: 2017– 2017
Martini found us through a Google search. However, after researching his profile, it turns out that he had a connection to Robert Reynolds. Martini’s work is, if not just impressive, but also massive in terms of the scale of his pieces.
We provided Martini website maintenance for several years.
About Martini
Martini Pandozy, reformist artist (M.A. in sculpture and Ph.D. in art education from N.Y.U.) has dedicated his entire life to redefining art as ontology. Born in Rome, Italy, in 1937, learned to cut marble and cast bronze in the old “Botteghe of Via Dei Coronari”. In 1967 he moved to N.Y. to study American art, where he mingled with art groups such as “art workers” and with artists like Beuys, Staeck and Kosuth. Like Beuys cultivated the dream of a “Free University” in N.Y. His latest multimedia sculptures “Lost Language” establishes his philosophical substance; His project the “Museum of Tomorrow” defines his sense of space; His “Horizontal Architecture” embodied in the proposed N.Y. Ground Zero Memorial shows his knowledge of physics; and his Opus Magnum “Of Arteology” (3 Volumes, 2,800 Pages) proves that true art is substantial anthropology.
Learn more about Martini here:
Martha Morrell
Client: 2024– Current
Martha found us through the Wix Marketplace needing a simple site she could easily maintain herself. We designed, developed and published her site, and then trained her keep it fresh with all of her new work.
About Martha
Martha Morrill is an artist, creator, and collaborator drawn to explore painting in watercolor, oil, and pastel. Martha collaborates with friends and clients, working on commissions ~ and creating meaningful artwork and keepsakes. She was honored to be a ‘Priority Participant’ in the Carmel Bach Festival Art Raffle 2017 - 2020.
Learn more about Martha and her work at her website:
Mike Siegel
Client: 2025 – Current
Mike was referred to us by Sarah Dorn, a graphic designer whose expertise includes art direction, complex digital compositing, high-end retouching, finishing, and digital illustration. Mike is the self-proclaimed Rebel WITH a Cause.
Painting a painting daily, he hired us to develop a website where he could promote and sell his collection of work.
More about Mike shortly. For now, check out his work at his site in progress.
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