Beauty · Visibility · Creativity
We are a group of artists and wellbeing practitioners across Alentejo and Algarve. We share our craft, our talents and our vibe, in workshops, in galleries and in residencies, wherever there is a space willing to hold them.
About
We bring together a curated network of artists, makers and wellbeing practitioners with hotels, retreats and unique spaces to create experiences that inspire connection, beauty and visibility.
From expressive workshops and living galleries to artist residencies and creative collaborations, we transform places into spaces where art is experienced, shared and lived, creating a ripple effect that reaches artists, guests, hosts and the wider community.
Who we are
The Ripple Foundation was born at the Art Space Residency in Odemira, where a dozen artists and wellbeing practitioners spent two weeks living and creating together. Every day another craft, another vibe, another skill. By the end of it something had formed that none of us arrived with: a close team with the same vision, to create a ripple of transformative arts.
We are photographers, painters, calligraphers, singers, movers, ceramicists, sound and cacao facilitators, teachers of Qi Gong. What we share is not a medium. It is the belief that creating something with your hands, in a room with other people, changes something that talking about it cannot.
So we go where the people are. Into hotels, guest houses, restaurants, galleries, and onto the farm. We bring the materials, we hold the space, and we leave something behind every time.
To expand creativity, to expand awareness, and to deepen connection: with ourselves, with each other, and with the community we are building.
Why we do this
With the process of creation we invite liberation on different layers of our being: freeing the mind, freeing the body, freeing the creative energy that has been blocked by the judgment, criticism and embarrassment so many of us faced during our childhood.
With The Ripple Foundation we invite people to break free and unlock their creative abilities.
The name
In terms of frequency, we create a ripple of light energy. We remove blockages and bring the creative energy into motion, which is pure life force energy.
And when energy flows, vitality, creativity, inspiration and expansion happen. When it happens within one person, their surroundings are positively affected, rippling out a beam of transformative and expansive energy.
Consciously and unconsciously, peeling away the layers that hold us from stepping into our full potential.
The three ripples
A framework rather than a menu. We bring the right artist to the right space, and shape what happens there around the space itself.
An afternoon, a day, or every week
Workshops led by one of us, held wherever you are. Cacao and collective painting, calligraphy, life drawing, photography, movement, totem making. A weekly afternoon, or a workshop whenever you or a guest asks for one. Materials come with the artist, no experience is needed, and everyone leaves holding something they created.
What this looks like →A weekend, a season, or always
Work hung where people already are. A pop up for one weekend, a season in a hotel, a permanent wall in a gallery, and an online gallery and shop where the whole collection lives. Curated for the room it goes into, not dropped into it.
What this looks like →A few nights, a week, or longer
Residencies. Artists live and work in one place for a stretch of time, and what they make there stays in the space. The Art Space Residency in Odemira was the first of its kind.
Co-Living. Stay at the horse farm in Alentejo as a creative co-living experience. Surround yourself with wild nature, horses and a quiet, inspiring environment to deepen and continue your creative process. The creative co-living →
Retreat. Our first Ripple Retreat happens at the end of January and the beginning of February: a week of co-creation, every day another workshop led by another artist, and evenings filled with delicious food and entertainment. The Ripple Retreat →
What this looks like →What it is for
Expansion, awareness and connection.
Most people arrive saying they are not creative. Two hours later they are holding something they made and cannot quite explain how. That is not a talent that some people have and others do not. It is a muscle, and it comes back quickly once it is used.
Every one of our sessions slows you down before it asks anything of you. Breath, movement, cacao, a walk to gather materials, a long look at the light. What you create is honest because the state you create it in is honest.
A room of strangers creating side by side stops being a room of strangers. It happens faster than conversation does, and it lasts. This is how the network itself was built, and it is what people come back for.
Where it happens
We are creative in different locations. Two regions, and the artists who live in them.
Hotels and guest houses
A workshop for guests, an exhibition through the rooms, an artist in residence for a season.
Restaurants and cafes
A weekly creative afternoon that fills the quiet hours and keeps people at the table afterwards.
Galleries and project spaces
Pop up shows and longer hangings, curated from the collection and from what is being made now.
The farm
Our own land near Odemira, where the smaller and slower things happen: totem making, Qi Gong, the horses, and days with no schedule.
The people
Local artists, performers and wellbeing practitioners, each with their own craft, their own story and their own vibe. Some of us have known each other for years, some met for the first time in August, and every project is built from whoever fits it.
Meet the artistsThree ways in
One form for all three. Tick what fits you, leave your details, and we come back to you.
We get back to you as soon as possible to answer your questions and requests.
Say hello
Tell us which part of this you are drawn to, and why. Share your questions, and let us connect to co-create an expansive experience together.
We get back to you as soon as possible to answer your questions and requests.
Create with us
