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Colibri spirit festival...
What an experience! So much went into behind the scenes of this month long build back in June and here are some creations I was heavily involved in.
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These photos are around 10% of the rest of the fabrication that went on and was created!
Bars, buildings, shades, fences, temples spaces, stages, back of house and green rooms, tent pitching and painting... dressing, overall decor, stages decor and so much more! The hole boarer and post waker were amazing but in the beggining before they arrived, it was shear strength and willpower! We worked together as a team and we smashed it.
The above images show the Thalassa Ocean stage I created the central piece for and collaborated with the over all stage building, digging in and creation and leveling of the Olive Grove stage and its final decor and banners, compost toilets and olive design hangers for on the toilet doors, the tribal print designs for the side of the toilets and the storage units at the sauna and ice bath area. And so much more!
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Hours and hours of digging, prepping, testing, painting, sanding, more painting, more sanding, dressing and creating these wonderful creations within the land. 1 full month of blood sweat and tears! I met family for life and I will always remember my time and life shared there. BIG LOVE to the Colibri team for pulling off such a massive collaboration!
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Thank you to Mark, Trang, Savanna for having me on the team and also to Anderson and Chris for caretaking the land and being there to look after us and direct us through the land and how corfu works! And all the other creatives that we're creating along side and the chefs and facilitators and locals of the land. Was a pleasure to work with you all! BIG UP, BIG LOVE, LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!💚

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One month of community living! 🌞

In summary; life changing.

The founders of @domnuvalley are running an online course called ‘Community Living Launchpad’ for those who want to learn how to create harmonious living projects.

There are two free online workshops 14th & 21st October call ‘Demystifying Community Living’ - totally free, go check the links in the @domnuvalley bio ✨🔗

Big love to everyone here, thank you for making me feel so welcome and at home so quickly 🙏🏼✨🩵

Can’t wait to share more!! ❤️‍🔥

#CommunityLiving #ConsciousCommunity #CommunityMatters #DomnuValley #NorthDevon

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• Everything I created at @medicinefestival •

I decided to make one Reel showing you all what two weeks of building and creating at @medicinefestival resulted in ✨

It’s been a while since I had a whole month basically dedicated to creating and exploring new materials and environments.

Medicine was definitely one of the biggest highlights of my year so far.

It gave me the chance to experience a reality that I want to live in: a life fully dedicated to creativity and exploration, surrounded by people who also want to live this way.

And from those two weeks, I gave birth to: a full bar design and build, 4 big murals for 4-meter benches, 2 hand-painted 1.20-meter mandalas, 1 snake painting, a mandala stencil for buntings and lights (everywhere!), and details for a chandelier.

Once again, I want to thank @flying_solo_33 and @gingersquirrelcreative for making all of this possible. 🤍

As I’ve already said here before, I’ll be expanding my work into new paths, including painting and getting back into murals.

My commissions are open for all of these, as well as tattoos. ✨

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• Design and painting for Shala Stage at @medicinefestival •

One of the highlights of my summer was being able to bring my art back to a larger scale.

When I started my artistic journey, before tattooing, I used to paint murals, and I still deeply love both the process and the result.

At Medicine, I had the opportunity to design and paint four benches for the Shala Stage, and this is the result. The artwork was created using a stencil as a base, with lots of hands and the help of some amazing women who made it all happen within a short period of time ✨

I want to give a huge thank you to @flying_solo_33 for trusting me with my art and giving me the opportunity to create this project (and others that I’ll be sharing soon) for the festival. It was such a joy to work with you, and I truly hope this is just the beginning ✨

Also, a big thank you to @gingersquirrelcreative for welcoming me into the team and allowing me to be part of something so magical and huge.

I have a huge desire to get back to painting more murals, so if you’re interested, drop me a DM 🌿 Let’s make it happen.

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Life’s been such a whirlwind lately that I forgot to share pictures from the actual festival. Feels like so long ago now but also just yesterday.

Very grateful for the experience, all the fun, all the blessings, all the music and workshops, all the dancing with incredible humans and of course, the lessons.

It’s a dream come true that I get to do work that I love so deeply and with humans that consistently inspire me.

Festival season has been intense this year and it’s expanded me in so many ways but I’m very grateful to slow down now and go internal as I reflect on all that this summer has taught me and see where this beautiful world takes me next 💚

#medicinefestival #festivalseason #consciousfestival #dancing #love

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There is something about building a festival that feels so deeply human to me.

Before the gates open and the music starts.
Before thousands of people arrive and the whole thing becomes what everyone sees…
There is the build.

A group of people living side by side, creating something together from just an empty field.

We eat together. We laugh together. We problem solve together. We carry things for each other — literally and metaphorically. We get tired, filthy, frustrated, inspired, ridiculous and delirious. We share everything, food, ideas, knowledge, stories and copious coffees.
Someone always knows how to do the thing you don’t know how to do.
Someone notices when you need a hand.
Someone makes everyone laugh when everything has gone completely wrong.
And underneath all of it is this shared purpose: we are building something bigger than any one of us.

I think that is why festival builds mean so much to me.

Because somewhere beneath all the capitalism bullshit we’ve been taught is “normal” — the competition, individualism, productivity, consumption and constant need for more — I think this is much closer to how humans are actually meant to live and my soul remembers it.

In community.
Creating.
Contributing.
Sharing.
Supporting.
Eating together.
Solving problems together.
Celebrating each other’s skills.
Looking after one another.
Making beautiful things simply because beauty matters.

There are hard days. There are disagreements. There is rain, exhaustion, broken things, impossible deadlines and moments where you wonder how the hell it is all going to come together.

But it always reminds me that we are capable of so much when we stop trying to do everything alone.

A festival might only exist for a few days.
But for those of us who build them, there is a little world that exists before everyone arrives.
And every year, I fall in love with that world all over again.
Maybe because somewhere deep inside me, it feels less like escaping real life…

and more like remembering how life could be. ❤️

So much love to @gingersquirrelcreative and @medicinefestival for giving me the opportunity to live out my dream life 💚
So much love

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Very pleased with my work at this year's @medicinefestival 🤗

One of the two pieces I've made with the help of my wonderful partner, this one took about 8 hours, round 3 metres diameter.

Majority of the materials used in it, have been reused year after year, moss has been returned to the forest although im unsure whether it can root back? And all the Rowan berries and rosehip have been scattered in the country side to spread seeds 🙏🏼

I'm saying this to anyone who gets inspired by my art, land art is supposed to be about honoring nature and mother earth and working with her, and finding ways to make it as sustainable as possible ✨️🌱

It looked so vibrant to start with, but quickly faded due to massive heatwave and got covered in dust (see the last 2 pictures) 😅

Massive thanks to @gingersquirrelcreative and @flying_solo_33 for always trusting me and giving me so much creative freedom 🧡 and to @gemmyboo for being such a great leader and support for her landart team 🙏🏼

#landart #landartist #naturalmandala #naturalart

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Temple of the Birds, at the Goddess Fyr, @medicinefestival 2026

Designed and created by lead artist @rebecca_gilling & team (tags below)

Produced by @gingersquirrelcreative, creative direction by @mrmarkalanharris

A new permanent install at @wasing1759 , honouring our feathered friends and uplifting oneness and harmony between all beings.

Created using ancestral building techniques including wattle and daub and clay & lime plastering. This is what is possible when a world class team of 20 artists, sculptors, natural builders and landscapers join forces for a 2.5 week marathon of making to co-create a vision.

It was an absolute dream to work with each and every one of you and I’m humbled by the love, effort and energy that you all poured into this piece. That we managed to pull off building an entire new structure, including stained glass, a hand cut stone mandala floor, a sculptural deck, angels, 3D birds in each rafter, huge wings and everything to a good standard in just over 2 weeks is astounding. In part it was thanks to extremely hot weather blessing us with rapid drying times, but mostly it was down to the devotion, hard work, high skill level, experience and dedication of the team…

Calling in more projects of this calibre!

Build co-pilot: @izathomson

Stained glass: @em.ma.glass
Stone floor mandala: @sacredearthlandscapesuk @beingbradcollins
Decking: guardianlandscapes & @madeline.p.lockhart
Timber structure: @patrickkeating33
Figure sculpture lead: @path.weavers
Rafter bird sculptors: @briannakillingbck & @mandrin_mob

Sculpture & Earth team:
@rebecca_gilling
@izathomson
@path.weavers
@madeline.p.lockhart
@jeffreythenaturalbuilder
@theearthenfloorcompany
@nudi.mud
@chlorobertoo
@primordialsoup_
@briannakillingbck
@millievanradish
@myrgon_
@mandrin_mob
@sagestoneman
@mishmash.creates
@noga_arad
@bodgery
@flatman.trowelz
@calch_cymru
@jonathan.meade
@connorsailes

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A place to sit, listen and contemplate — House of Soma.

@medicinefestival changed my perspective on how to run a show. An ongoing 360° dome installation with holographic ambient visuals.

It was an amazing experience delivering this AV piece. An intimate space to stop and immerse yourself in the music. Big ups to the whole team involved, and thanks @gingersquirrelcreative for making it happen!

#domeprojection #projectionmapping #freealcohol #consciousnessfestival

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25,000 Lumen Laser Projector
Medicine Festival 2026

@gingersquirrelcreative
@medicinefestival
@thomas_lightart
@epsonuk
@doysikhead

#medicinefestival #projectionmapping #epsonprojector #madmapper #instadaily

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What’s for you won’t pass you by ~ “Whit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye!”

Feeling the truth of this Celtic proverb after singing with @cuervocuervomusic at @medicinefestival this weekend (see my last post for the story of how this came about!) but really it started much earlier…

I was 8 years old when I stood at the front of my class and sang ‘Power of a Woman’ by Eternal for show and tell

I loved singing AND I loved what I witnessed in the people I sang for. A moment of pure presence that felt more real to me than anything else

Back then I wanted to be a popstar, because that was the only reference point I had for people who got to sing to lots of people at once

Perhaps I could intuitively feel the potential power of presence amplified in crowds at concerts, and how that might be channelled for healing

As I got older and wiser I began to see the pop music industry as a layer of the matrix and felt grateful I hadn’t entered after all

But my love of singing never went away, and neither did the desire to sing for lots of people at once

And then, there you all were, in the Shala at Medicine, beaming back at us, as the music carried my soul out through my lungs

Thank you @cuervocuervomusic for inviting me on this journey and for the other-worldly sound medicina you create

What a gift ✨
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#youarethemedicine #cuervocuervo #medicinemusic #medicinefestival

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More than a structure.
A space with its own energy. ✨

Built to create a feeling — a place to pause, breathe, listen, and reconnect with yourself and the moment.

Designed & built by @ma.da.crea × @pablo_art_co.
Produced by @gingersquirrelcreative.
At @colibrispirit.festival
🎥 @alejandrocampollo #architecture #conceptualart #metalwork #spaceframe #festivalart

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