Collage of an odd coincidence This image of a painting by a Russian painter, Zinaida Serebriakova, painted in 1930 and called Terrace in Collioure, caught my eye. To be more precise, it hit me with a strange recognition. Not of deja vu in the strictest sense, as in something relived, but more of recognition of what is to come, maybe. There I am on the veranda of an old farmhouse, looking out over the familiar peaks of Wakkerstroom. Only, this is a scene in southern France, painted more than eighty years ago. Who is this painter? I have to know more! Matilda
The Restory is a Retreat Centre nestled against Tafelkop, a singular mountain head near Wakkerstroom, South Africa. Here we live a simple life as contemplatives. It is a place of re-connection: with ourselves, people, Nature, Silence and Creativity. Our retreats are aimed at this. Our conversations, writing and art centre around the univocity of life. We need a place that reminds us that we are all one. The Restory hopes to be such a place and space.