Pickwick Lake
— a river held still against the Tennessee line.
Not only on a wall.
Pickwick Lake, on ceramic.
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.
“Pickwick Lake is the reservoir behind Pickwick Landing Dam on the Tennessee River, built by the TVA in 1938. The lake reaches across the corners of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, covering about 43,100 acres at full pool. In Mississippi it lies in Tishomingo County, bordered by Tishomingo State Park. Smallmouth-bass anglers know this water well. The bluffs are limestone and the shorelines run rocky. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Pickwick Lake is a 43,100-acre reservoir on the Tennessee River, impounded by Pickwick Landing Dam in Hardin County, Tennessee. The Tennessee Valley Authority completed the dam in 1938 as part of its New Deal river-control system. The lake stretches roughly 53 miles upstream from the dam and reaches into Tishomingo County, Mississippi, and Colbert County, Alabama. On the Mississippi side, Tishomingo State Park borders the eastern shore. The dam's powerhouse produces around 240 megawatts of hydroelectric capacity across its generating units.
The Tennessee River here cuts through limestone bluffs and the impounded lake holds clear, cool water through much of the year. Smallmouth bass, largemouth, and catfish dominate the fishery, and Pickwick is among the better-known smallmouth waters in the United States. Bassmaster events visit most years. Mussel beds run along the gravel shoals. The river's average depth above the dam runs about 40 feet; the deepest section reaches roughly 90 feet near the dam structure itself.
The lake's Mississippi shore runs along the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau's outliers: Pennsylvanian-age sandstone over Mississippian limestone. Tishomingo State Park, established in 1939, preserves a stretch of these formations through sandstone outcrops, hardwood ridges, and the swinging bridge over Bear Creek built by the Civilian Conservation Corps the same year. The Bear Creek canyon system feeds into the lake from the east. Old riverbed bluffs visible above the waterline run thirty to sixty feet high in places.
