Recollet Manoir

In 2010 Oléa and Patrice Pinaquy bought a nearly 400-year-old former convent in central France. With her background in landscape architecture and his experience as a master craftsman and restorer, they embarked on the long journey of taking the dilapidated residence and transforming it into a state beyond its original beauty - a setting perfect for artist and educational retreats, a setting surrounded by one of the richest cultural regions in France, and a setting to reconvene with nature and oneself.

As they near completion in time for their autumn 2023 opening, Oléa shares her story of how she has been transformed by they transformation of the convent over the last decade. Directed, produced, filmed, and edited by Kirk Jackson