
— the clearest blue the prairie keeps.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Wilson Lake sits in a Dakota sandstone basin where the Saline River cuts through the Smoky Hills, the buff bluffs that announce western Kansas to anyone driving I-70. The water reads improbably blue for the plains — the locals call it the clearest lake in Kansas, and the limited inflow and rocky bottom make the claim defensible. The reservoir was completed by the Corps of Engineers in 1964. On the north shore, the Rocktown Natural Area trails wind through fifteen-foot sandstone pillars the river left standing. from the studio
Wilson Lake is a 9,040-acre reservoir on the Saline River in north-central Kansas, straddling the Russell-Lincoln county line about eight miles north of I-70 between Salina and Hays. The dam was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1964 for flood control, water supply, and recreation. Wilson State Park manages two developed areas, Otoe and Hell Creek, along the south shore. The lake sits in the Smoky Hills region where Dakota sandstone bluffs replace the flatter mixed-grass prairie to the east, and the rocky shoreline gives the water its distinctive clarity.
Wilson is widely cited as the clearest lake in Kansas, with summer Secchi-disk readings often more than twice those of comparable plains reservoirs. The clarity comes from a small drainage relative to the lake's volume, a rocky Dakota sandstone bottom that resists turbidity, and limited agricultural inflow compared with reservoirs farther east. The fishery centers on striped bass, smallmouth bass, walleye, and white bass; the smallmouth population is one of the strongest in the state. Water levels fluctuate seasonally with Corps flood-control management.
The lake is reached by exit 206 off I-70 at Wilson, then K-232 north about eight miles to the dam. Wilson State Park covers 927 acres in the Otoe and Hell Creek areas along the south shore, with campgrounds, boat ramps, and the IMBA-rated Switchgrass mountain-bike trail running twenty-five miles along the bluffs. The Rocktown Natural Area on the north shore is a 320-acre tract of Dakota sandstone pillars accessed by a 2.7-mile hike from the Lucas Park trailhead. Closest towns: Wilson and Lucas, both small and within fifteen minutes of the dam.