Lake Anna State Park
— a wide green water with a long memory.
Not only on a wall.
Lake Anna State Park, 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.
“A 3,000-acre park on the upper end of Lake Anna, the reservoir built in the early 1970s on the North Anna River. The shoreline runs through old Goodwin's gold-mining country and the visitor center keeps a small panning trough out back. There is a swim beach, a fishing pier, and quiet wooded loops that come down to the water through pine and hardwood. The afternoons hold a long, slow light.
The place, in three passes.
Lake Anna State Park covers about 3,019 acres on the north shore of Lake Anna in Spotsylvania County, roughly halfway between Richmond and Fredericksburg. The lake itself is a 13,000-acre reservoir built between 1968 and 1972 to cool the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station, which sits on the lake's southern arm. The park opened to the public in June 1983 and is managed by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. More than fifteen miles of trail run through mixed pine and hardwood down to the lake's quieter coves.
The lake is split into a public side and a private cooling side; the state park sits on the public side. The water is warm-temperate, holds largemouth bass, striped bass, and crappie, and is a fishing destination from spring through fall. The park's swim beach is open Memorial Day through Labor Day and is the only guarded swim area on the lake. A small boat launch handles canoes, kayaks, and trailered boats up to a posted limit.
The land beneath the park was part of the Goodwin gold belt, a vein worked through the nineteenth century until the mine closed around 1900. The visitor center keeps a panning sluice running in season, and ranger-led history walks trace the old shafts down toward Pigeon Run. Day-use traffic peaks on summer weekends; spring wildflowers and fall color carry the shoulder seasons, and winter brings the quietest light on the water.
