Lynn Spoor x REVUSD
For Dutch contemporary artist Lynn Spoor, strength in art doesn’t come from pushing harder. It comes from letting softness in: space, stillness, the freedom to play. She paints on location and often mixes in what’s around her: sand, marble dust, dried flowers. Each canvas carries the trace of a place where creativity was allowed to breathe.
Her work Lavender Fields was created exclusively for her collaboration with REVUSD. Inspired by the French lavender fields, she translated soft lilacs, broken whites and neutrals into a painting that now forms the basis of the Lavender Fields collection. Reimagined in leather, each bag shows a fragment of the artwork.
And because creativity so often starts with place, we’ve also gathered a list of creative retreats in the countries that shaped her work. Spots designed to loosen you up, spark new ideas, and let creativity do the rest.
Bland Badger Retreats
A few times a year, creatives Charlotte Bland and Ros Badger turn Villa Pia (a 15th-century manor on the Umbrian-Tuscan border) into what they call creative house parties. Think four-course dinners, an open fridge, and a schedule that’s more suggestion than rule. Join a workshop such as silver clay, painting, collaging, cooking, hit Italy’s oldest antiques market, or just hole up and work on your own thing.
Mèlisses
Seventy-five steps from the Aegean in Greece, creative Allegra Pomilio has turned her family’s seaside home into a boutique B&B with a magical sense of calm. A few times a year she hosts retreats that bring people together for skills like papermaking with natural dyes or foraging to create teas. Breakfast is her thing (tsoureki, yoghurt, wild thyme honey), as is dinner by candlelight. We’ve got our eye on her Secret Garden Retreat, perfumery, papermaking, calligraphy: coming spring 2026.
The School by Megan Morton
Our eye is on the retreats in Provence and Italy, but Megan Morton takes it global. Her six-night, women-only trips mix creativity with style, think block printing, pottery or ink making, always paired with stays at swoon-worthy properties like La Gonette in the Luberon. The real luxury? Not less to do, but knowing everything’s handled so you can just soak it up.
Watercolour retreats at Pardini's Hermitage
Pardini’s Hermitage on the Tuscan island of Giglio is as off-grid as it gets: boat access only. Every year, artist Alessandra Bruno runs watercolour holidays here: mornings with a brush in hand, afternoons doing absolutely nothing, and dinners heavy on homemade pasta, fresh fish and whatever’s ripe in the garden.
Kate Watson-Smyth Design Retreats
Guests split their time between a boutique hotel in the city and her 18th-century villa just outside it with workshops, the Balon flea market and long dinners fuelled by pastries, aperitifs and her little black book of local favourites. Read more about the retreat on her substack or find the info on her website: kwsdesignretreats.com
