The Art Space Residency

15–28 August 2026 · Alentejo, Portugal

Create. Connect.
Leave your mark.

A workshop every day, led by a different artist. A long table every evening. One open house to finish. Come for a morning, for a day, or for as many as you like.

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How the days run

Every day belongs to one artist.

A new artist arrives each day. They bring their craft to a workshop, and that evening they host the table: a different vegan chef cooks, and the guests are people worth introducing them to. Two weeks of that, one day at a time.

During the day

A workshop, led by that day's artist

Open to everyone staying and to guests who come up for it. Every artist works in their own medium and their own method, so no two days look alike.

In the evening

To Gather Together, hosted by the same artist

A different vegan chef cooks a signature menu. The artist invites people to the table, and we bring the connections we think they should meet: retreat leaders, hoteliers, collectors, curious souls.

See the dinner series →

At the end

The Open House exhibition

Everything made across the two weeks, shown together in one closing evening: the finished work, the work still drying, and the artists who made it.

The Open House →

Every workshop can be booked on its own. Come for one day or for as many as you like.

The programme

15 to 27 August 2026

Workshops are added as each artist confirms, so it is worth looking again.

A stoneprint by Jyoti Graziano: the face of a carved deity transferred onto a flat stone

Saturday 15 AugustFull day

Sacred Stoneprints and Altar Creation

with Jyoti GrazianoJyoti works with the imagery of the sacred across spiritual traditions.

Learn the technique of transferring an image onto stone, and spend the day making a sacred stone of your own. Together the group builds an altar installation that stays with the residency, and Jyoti gives a talk on what altars have meant across different cultures, and on how to relate to one day to day. Your stone comes home with you at the end of the residency.

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Shankari seated at the ceremonial altar before a gong

Sunday 16 AugustAfternoon

The Art of the Heart

with ShankariCacao ceremony and sound healing facilitator.

We welcome you at the pool with a drink, time to arrive, settle into the calm surroundings, and connect with the other participants before the day begins. From there, we move into a sacred cacao ceremony, co-creating a protected, heart-centred space together. From that place of love and presence, colour and painting are invited to flow freely into a collective artwork, held throughout by a live sound healing journey on ancestral instruments. Together, we co-create the very tablecloth that will host the To Gather Together dinners in the days that follow.

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A collage by Erika Prib: a winged insect above a woman in white, gold geometry behind her

Monday 17 AugustMorning

Create Your Personal Energy Map

with Erika PribInterdisciplinary artist making symbolic works that bring presence and harmony into a space.

An intuitive collage workshop, where you make a personal energetic map: a visual manifestation of an intention, a vision, or an inner landscape. We begin with a gentle grounding and centering practice, then work with a wide spread of materials, textures and imagery until your own visual language starts to appear. No artistic experience is needed, and you leave with a piece that holds your own direction back to you.

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See the whole programme

Where art meets nature

An open space that invites us to co-create.Where creativity flourishes into beauty.

A place where creatives meet each other, and where the making of things becomes expansive, fruitful and colourful. Room to co-create, and room to go further into your own craft.

Nestled in the peaceful countryside of Southern Portugal, the Art Space is a house given over to making: artists bring their craft to it, guests sit down at the same table, and the work stays on the walls.

Creativity is supported here through nature, meaningful conversations, nourishing food, movement, culture and genuine human connection. You do not need to be an artist to take part. You only need to want to make something.

Imagine your days

Waking up surrounded by nature.

Begin your morning with a powerful morning practice.

Share a table with local artists.

Spend uninterrupted hours creating.

Cool off in the pool.

Enjoy nourishing vegan meals.

Dance beneath the stars.

Listen to live music.

Exhibit your work.

Share your story.

Leave your mark.

The Art Space Hotel

A house that invites vibrant art to be exhibited

A converted windmill on a hilltop in Alentejo, and the place every workshop, dinner and the Open House happens in. See the hotel →

The pool and the glass-domed tower
The windmill tower and the pool
An art-filled living space
The long dining table
The well-equipped kitchen

The pillars

Designed to create lasting value

Long after the residency has ended.

01

A workshop every day

Each day belongs to one artist, who brings their own craft, their own materials and their own way of working. Every one is open to book on its own, and no two days look alike.

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02

The Living Collection

Every participating artist contributes one selected artwork to become part of the permanent Art Space Hotel Living Collection. Year after year, this evolving collection transforms the hotel into a living gallery, where every artist leaves a lasting legacy.

03

Open House

On the last day of the residency the doors open. Visitors are invited into a vibrant celebration of everything made during it.

  • Artist exhibitions
  • Live music
  • Conversations with artists
  • Film screenings documenting the creative journey

On the last day of the residency. Art is not only displayed. It is experienced.

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04

The Art Space Online Gallery

A filmmaker joins us for the residency, and the material they make becomes your digital profile — shown in the Online Gallery, and yours to keep. Your artistic journey continues beyond Portugal.

  • Professional photography
  • Artist biography
  • Interview
  • Story behind the artwork
  • Films documenting your creative process
  • A digital profile of your own
  • Artwork available for purchase (where applicable)
05

A growing community

It doesn't end when the residency does. Artists, makers and the people who came to their workshops stay in touch, and the network keeps growing through the editions that follow.

06

The first edition

This is the first time the Art Space has done this. Whatever is made here, and whoever makes it, becomes part of how the place is remembered and what the next edition is built on.

What makes this different

Art is only one part of creativity.

We believe inspiration grows when body, mind and environment are equally nourished. That is why the making here sits alongside good food, movement, long views and the time to use them.

Three ways in

Come and take part

A workshop

Every day

Spend a morning or a whole day making alongside the artist whose day it is. Materials included, no experience needed.

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The Table

Every evening

A long table, a different vegan chef, and whoever is here that night. Separate from the workshops, and open to anyone.

Join a dinner →

The Open House

The last day

Everything made during the residency in one evening: the work on the walls, music, and the doors open to the village.

Come along →
Philine Allard

Meet your host

Philine Allard

Founder of Natural Healing He(art)s

Artist · Reiki Master · Qi Gong Teacher · Creative Facilitator

Art. Nature. Well-being. Connection.

The Art Space Residency brings together my greatest passions.

For years I have guided people in reconnecting with themselves through creativity, movement and wellbeing practices. This residency is an invitation to create from a place of presence rather than pressure.

My vision is to build an international community where artists inspire one another while leaving a lasting artistic legacy.

Book a workshop · 15–28 August 2026

Create. Connect. Leave your mark.

Come and make something in the first edition of the Art Space. Pick a day, book a place, and leave with the thing you made and the people you made it with.

Places are intentionally limited, so each workshop stays small enough for the artist to work with everyone in the room.

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Would you like to lead one? Tell us what you make.

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