Hey
highrider
, hope you dont mind if I fire some of my honest opinions your way.
First of all my favourites of yours that I enjoyed. 2018 Fall 11,6, Spring 3, 2017 Summer 4 and 2016 Spring 1. I appreciate you sharing your work. It can always be tough.
I worked super briefly in front-end dev before deciding to go back to animation but there are few things I would like to point out.
Ok, As dumb and as obvious as it sounds your site represents your art and who you are. Think of it as an actually physical gallery of sorts and the front page is how you would like people to view your galley as they walk through the door. Make it a clean experience as possible. Perhaps you already curate your work but it is never recommend to have so many images in one place/page. I would say pick your best 30 and update, replace and curate at least for the front page. Most people will not go onto a site and click through all 143 images. You can tell people if they would like to see more to check out the instagram or an archive page etc and most will if interested.
Over all the phone version shows everything a lot better besides the fact it tries to load up all images. You can amend things like this with either reducing the amount of images on the page or using some sort of lazy loading script for your site.
The site itself, comes across more as a fixed site (made for specific set resolutions) rather than responsive (flexible in all modern resolutions). For instance I am on a 1440p monitor at work and your name in the banner is being covered up by the navigation bar. Not ideal. (Going back to why it seems designed better for phones rather than desktop).
Unfortunately your banner/footer image is blurry and pixellated. Not a good first impression! If there was anything to take from this I hope you fix this! (hope thats the better quality image you are talking about). The text is not handling the scaling very well either for larger screens as mentioned above. A general rule of thumb is to never have text as such in an image, it will scale pretty badly. You can do it with standard web text and it would look a lot better.
I would match your desktop version to the phone where I could see more of the thumbnails than just 6. I think if you pick the 30ish above thats a nice size for a site to scroll through and perhaps link to archive/instagram for more?
Some super smalls things for the desktop version, I would sit the navigation bar on the bottom of the header banner, its floating a little and the text is not centering in the navigation bar, closer to the top of the bar, small things like this makes it look a little untidy. Perhaps the text size needs increasing a little when it comes to your Bio info. I would also add a copyright thing at the bottom of the page too. Not sure if it actually does anything but makes things more legit.
Anyway hope you dont mind the criticism and most of it is just my subjective eye picking up on things but hoping it will be constructive. Thanks again for sharing.