A Retreat in the Heart of Gascony

Miv Watts, the mentor and inspiration for this Lexis Retreats, has spent her life involved in two major creative industries – music and film – working with artists at the top of their art. Her daughter is Hollywood film actress Naomi Watts, her son the photographer Ben Watts, and her late husband, Pete, was the sound engineer for Pink Floyd from their inception in the mid 1960s. She learned at an early age that ‘creativity’ is seeing what others see – but then thinking for yourself and having the courage to follow your thought. It is this practice that is the focus of the retreat: 

 

“Creating a home is about filtering the layers and experiences of one’s life. It is theatrical, like creating a drama or film – but a home is also a process, it has a strong practical element. It is a mix of dreaming and deciding. Feeling and function.”