In 2020 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 riches cultural regions in France, and a setting to reconvene with nature and oneself.