Showcase · The house, in five acts

How a scattered studio
became a room.

Not a case study. A narrative. Scroll.

Act I

Four platforms. No sleep. A painter who wasn't painting.

WordPress for the gallery. A bolted-on print shop that shipped nothing on its own. Squarespace for the Airbnb studio. Mailchimp for a collector list that hadn't been touched in a year.

Every sale required a manual invoice. Every print required a phone call. Every studio visit required a spreadsheet. The website was a second job — and it wasn't a good one.

Wordpress
Print shop
Squarespace
Mailchimp
Act II

One room. Every wall built on purpose.

The gallery wall

Editorial presentation with fullscreen zoom, curated series, real provenance.

The back office

Collector CRM, orders, refunds, alerts, waitlists, promotions — one dashboard, no exports.

The atelier door

Commissions intake, studio-visit booking, print-on-demand fulfillment. Hands-off.

Act III

The first believer.

Ron Anthony Marchelletta painting a floral canvas en plein air
Ron Marchelletta · Morrison, Colorado

Ron said yes when Artist Growth System was a promise on a napkin. Three weeks later, his studio was live at marchelletta.art — twenty-three originals catalogued, prints shipping worldwide untouched, an Airbnb studio-visit engine booking weekends out.

"It finally feels like the website belongs to the art, not the other way around."
— Ron Anthony Marchelletta
3 wks
Launch time
23
Originals live
4→1
Platforms consolidated
Act IV

The Flagship Collection — quietly.

The anchor of the roster. A body of traditional oil work assembled over decades, painted by hand, hung in real rooms. Announcement pending.

The room was built with this collection in mind — even before the ink was dry on the announcement. When it opens, the house will have a body of work with real museum-grade gravity at its anchor.

Representative works · not photographs of the collection

Marabou Sentinels shown in a traditional collector's study, framed in gilt gold above a leather wingback chair
Newest arrival · In studio

Marabou Sentinels

A pair of marabou storks holding a thorned acacia at midday — the stillness before the wind moves. Painted from field studies on linen, glazed in oil, and set in a hand-finished gilt frame chosen to match the rest of the room.

Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
36 × 36 in · framed 44 × 44 in
Framing
Hand-finished gilt, linen liner
Status
Cataloguing · announcement pending

In-room rendering · representative of the finished hang

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The Reckoning shown in an ornate carved gilt frame above a mahogany console in a traditional collector's study
Newest arrival · In studio

The Reckoning

A Bengal tiger meets a charging Cape buffalo in the tall grass — the instant the hunt turns and neither animal will yield. Painted in the classical big-game tradition: heavy oils, warm ochres, and a composition that leans into the viewer.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
36 × 48 in · framed 46 × 58 in
Framing
Ornate carved gilt, silver-linen liner (as pictured)
Status
Cataloguing · announcement pending

In-room rendering · representative of the finished hang

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Serpent in the Shallows shown in a warm walnut frame above a low credenza in a traditional collector's library
Newest arrival · In studio

Serpent in the Shallows

A jaguar and an anaconda locked in the black water of a cypress swamp — spray, moss, and the low green light of the rainforest floor. A landscape-format study in movement, painted with the same field-observed intensity as the rest of the room.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 × 48 in · framed 38 × 56 in
Framing
Warm walnut wood with cream linen liner (as pictured)
Status
Cataloguing · announcement pending

In-room rendering · representative of the finished hang

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Act V · The invitation

Which side of the wall are you on?

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