WORKING ARTISTS
Give your art the time it keeps asking for.
For artists fitting their work around another career: uninterrupted weeks, space to make, and peers who understand.
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Create · Connect · Belong
StartArt
Creative House.
Paint, write or express your art surrounded by creativity and nature. One to four weeks stay, March to October, all meals included.
4.9 on Google · 40 min from Porto
ART · PEOPLE · NATURE · ONE HOUSE
The Creative House
A house that becomes more itself with every person who passes through.
StartArt is made from time shared: ideas around the table, paint on the walls, a swim before dinner, a conversation that changes the work. This is not about starting again. It is about creating, connecting and belonging.
Who comes here
You don't need to be a professional artist
to live like one.
People arrive with a project, a laptop or just curiosity. Choose the stay that fits where you are.
MATURE ARTISTS
It's never too late to create.
A week to paint, write or photograph in a welcoming house in nature, among a creative community. All experience levels.
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CREATIVE COLIVING
Nature outside. Creativity inside.
For remote workers who want focus, a healthy routine and real company, with nature at the door.
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Art in every room,
nature all around.
Hand-painted rooms, shared studios and a games room indoors. Garden, river and mountains at the door. Take a look around.
Creative Retreat
Choose your room.
Private, single or shared, with meals and studio included. 1–4 weeks, March to October.
from €490 / week · meals included
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Artist workshops
Discover the artistic experiences.
Spend a day making with a practising artist: murals, canvas or photography. No experience needed.
from €100 · resident price
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Life here
The work happens everywhere.
At the studio table. On a wall. Over lunch. Beside the river. The house is designed so focused practice and daily life can keep feeding each other.
Getting here
40 minutes
from Porto.
Fly into Porto and you are almost here. The house sits in Loureira, Vila Verde, a quiet village between Braga and the Peneda-Gerês mountains, with the Rio Homem at the end of the road.
Open in Google Maps →- Porto airport (OPO)40 min
- Braga15 min
- Rio Homem, on foot2 min
- Peneda-Gerês National Park1 h
The Journal
The people make the archive.
Meet the writers, muralists, photographers, teachers and curious people who have passed through StartArt. Read their stories, and what they say about the house.
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Let's talk
Tell us what
you want to create.
Not sure which stay fits, or which dates work? Send us a message about your project, your idea or just your curiosity. We'll help you find your way into the house.
Start a conversationor write to marketing@startartresidency.com
