Experiment #7

Seven days on an island with 63 artists and seven mentors. The program combines masterclasses, art labs, and private mentoring sessions.

It's built around a simple premise: your blockage isn't lack of skill. It's a mental structure that used to protect you but now limits your work.

We don't teach more technique. We dismantle the decision patterns that keep you repeating yourself.

What changes isn't your craft. It's your operating system.

You'll work longer and harder than you think you can.

You'll make work you can't control the outcome of.

You'll expose process before it's ready.

This isn't about learning new techniques.

It's about dismantling the ones you hide behind.

Your competence will be challenged.

Your standards will be suspended.

Your strategies will fail.

If you need to know you'll succeed before you start, don't come.

If you need to maintain your usual quality, don't come.

If you need control over the outcome, don't come.

You need basic drawing and painting skills. That's the floor. After that, technical level doesn't matter.

What we look for:

Artists stuck in their own competence. Who sense they're repeating patterns. Who know more technique won't solve it.

Beginners get in. Professionals get in. The filter isn't skill -it's whether you're ready to dismantle something.

Labs mix artistic training, psychology, and strategy. The format makes you act before you think.

Inspired by Stanislavski's Method: get into the state first, study the script after.

You get a challenge daily with no clear solution, no instructions. You react creatively without theory to lean on. After, the group reflects together on what you actually did and how you made those decisions. Not what you should have done.

The labs are intense. They're also the core of the program.

Three 45-minute private sessions over the week with three different mentors.

TRIANGULATION: 

Each mentor has a completely different way of seeing. What one misses, another catches. By the third session, your blind spots have nowhere to hide.

A different mentor looks at your work in every session and asks questions you haven't asked yourself. They see the patterns you repeat, the decisions you avoid, the structures that limit your range.

They don't tell you what to do. It's not advice on technique. They ask questions that expose what you already know but haven't faced.

Because not everyone fits the program. The filter works both ways.

The process is simple: you apply, we schedule a 20-minute conversation. Not an interrogation -a conversation to see if the program matches where you are right now. To see if you're ready to work without instructions, to act before you think, to let your blind spots get exposed.

If both sides say yes, you pay 30% to reserve your spot. The rest we work out together.

We curate for variety. Different backgrounds, different levels, different approaches. Friction creates pressure. Pressure reveals patterns.

Don't choose based on whose work you like. Choose based on who sees differently than you do.

Remember: TRIANGULATION.

Three mentors, three completely different perspectives. What one misses, another catches. If you pick three mentors who all think the same way, you waste the structure.

Pick mentors who work in ways that confuse you, who use logic you don't understand, whose priorities seem backwards to yours. That's where the friction is. That's where blind spots get exposed.

Not sure who to pick? Email us. We know who sees what.

63 visual artists from over 20 countries.

65% women / 35% men.

The mix:

50% working professionals

30% students

20% semi-professionals

Different disciplines:

painters illustrators concept artists tattoo artists 3D artists visual storytellers animators comic artists abstract artists multimedia artists …

People who haven't been call it a cult, a scam, Epstein's island.

People who have been call it back and ask when the next one is.

Their contact info is under their testimonials. Ask them yourself.

Adjust your expectations.

What to expect:

(X) No technique demos. No step-by-step workshops. No one painting while you watch.

(X) Not a retreat. Not a vacation.

Instead: challenges with no clear solution, mentors who ask uncomfortable questions, labs where you act before you think.

A week designed to expose the patterns you repeat without noticing -and the structures that now limit you.

€3,700.

If the price stops you, this isn't your moment. Come back when it is.

If it makes you pause but not quit, notice what's happening: you're negotiating with yourself about how much this is worth. That negotiation is familiar. You've been having it with your art for years.

30% reserves your spot. We work out the rest with payment plans.

It rarely is.

There's always a reason to wait. A project, a deadline, a better moment, a better president…

Notice the pattern: you're doing with this decision exactly what you do with your art. Circling. Preparing. Waiting for conditions that never arrive.

The artists who come don't come because the timing is right. They come because they're done waiting.

No phones on the island. Period.

Not for work. Not for emergencies. Not for checking in.

There's an emergency phone in our office if something critical happens. In six editions, zero emergencies were missed. Beyond that, you're offline for seven days.

What you do at your hotel after hours is your business. But on the island, the phone stays off.

If that's a dealbreaker, this isn't your program.

NOPE

If you’re here for technique or to mimic your favorite artists.

NAH

If you’re chasing fan moments, hoping to watch the mentors paint.

YUP

If you're repeating patterns, feeling stuck in your own skill, and ready to expose the blind spots you can't see alone.

Come for the right reasons.

If you don't come, what changes?