Title: La Muse
Year: 2010
Project Type: Four week Artist Residency
Location: South West France.
Mia spent a nourishing and inspiring three weeks in October 2010 at The La Muse Inn, in the hilltop village of Labastide-Esparbairenque, South West France, North of the walled city of Carcassonne.
It was a feast of nature, solitude and creativity. Much of the daily rhythm was spent working in the stone studio, or in her beautiful windowed room, mixed with long forest walks, and fantastic replenishing food. The local valley produce included local honey, chestnuts, walnuts, grapes, wines, goats cheese, rabbit, sun ripened tomatoes and silverbeet like you've never tasted.
La Muse brings together attendees from various creative art forms to an inspiring, peaceful, mountain setting, to have dedicated time to work on their creative practice.
Mia was lucky enough to have an incredible group of women with whom she shared her retreat, including 2 writers from New York, a poet from the Palouse, a jeweller/ writer from Dublin, another visual artist from Melbourne and a poet /photographer from Zurich!
View our musers book swap here:
and visit www.lamuseinn.com