Wender·Vista
Carriacou Island
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileGrenada
in the southern Grenadines, north of Grenada

Carriacou Island

— — the quiet island the schooners still come home to.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“The largest of the Grenadines, about twenty-three kilometres north of Grenada and a long way from any cruise dock. Hillsborough is the only town. In Windward, on the east coast, families still lay the keels of wooden sloops by hand, the way their Scottish-descended ancestors taught. Sandy Island sits offshore like a pencil sketch of a beach. from the studio

from the studio
Carriacou Island
— bring it home

Carriacou Island, 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.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
— start a Coaster Set

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.

— about Carriacou Island

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

Carriacou is the largest of the Grenadine islands, about thirty-four square kilometres of dry hills and coast roughly twenty-three kilometres northeast of Grenada. It belongs to the tri-island state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Around eight thousand people live across the island, most of them in or near Hillsborough on the west coast. The interior rises to Chapeau Carré at roughly 291 metres. Visitors arrive by the Osprey ferry from St. George's or by small plane into Lauriston Airport.

— informed by Wikipedia — Carriacou
— the water

Sandy Island lies a short boat ride off Hillsborough, a thin strip of white sand and casuarinas inside the Sandy Island/Oyster Bed Marine Protected Area, established in 2010. The reefs around the island carry brain coral, sea fans, and parrotfish. Tyrrel Bay, to the south, is the working anchorage for cruisers crossing the eastern Caribbean. The water sits warm and clear most of the year, with the clearest visibility through the dry season from January to April.

— the year

The Carriacou Regatta has run every August since 1965, drawing the island's hand-built wooden sloops from Windward and Petite Martinique back to Hillsborough Harbour for four days of racing. In April, the Maroon and String Band Music Festival fills the island with parang, quadrille, and the Big Drum Nation Dance, a ceremony of West African ancestral remembrance whose calls name the nations the dancers descend from. Both are working festivals, run by the villages.

— where
Grenada · Carriacou, Grenada
— position
12.4833° N · 61.4500° W
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
2 km W
Sandy Island
offshore islet
8 km NE
Petite Martinique
sister island
37 km SW
Grenada
main island
N
Carriacou Island
Sandy Island
Petite Martinique
Grenada
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Carriacou Island — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

Carriacou is the largest of the Grenadine islands, lying about twenty-three kilometres north of Grenada in the southern Caribbean. It is part of the tri-island state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.

Most travellers take the Osprey ferry from St. George's in Grenada, a passage of about ninety minutes. SVG Air and other small carriers also run light flights into Lauriston Airport on the west coast.

Hand-built wooden sloops from the village of Windward, the August Regatta that races them, and the Big Drum Nation Dance, a ceremony of West African ancestral remembrance carried by the island's families.

English is the official language. Older residents also speak a French-based patois inherited from earlier French settlement, and family naming traces both Scottish and West African lineages.

The regatta has run each August since 1965, four days of wooden-boat racing centred on Hillsborough Harbour and tied to a wider weekend of music and food across the island.

Yes. Sandy Island sits inside a marine protected area established in 2010, reachable by a short boat ride from Hillsborough or Paradise Beach. Visitors are asked to anchor on the sand patches, not the coral.

— about the piece in your home

Many of our customers send a piece to family who grew up on the island or who anchor at Tyrrel Bay each season. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio travels well.

The blues and warm sand notes sit naturally with Coastal-modern, Jewel-tone Maximalist, and the lighter end of Mediterranean rooms. The piece holds its own against white walls or against deep navy.

Coastal-modern has moved away from beige toward saturated Caribbean blues and warm terracottas. The Carriacou palette sits in that direction without leaning generic-beach.

Above a console, a single Large reads well. Above a standard sofa, the four-tile Mural or a nine-tile Mural carries the wall; the nine-tile gives the schooner room to read at distance.

Yes, on the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are scratch-resistant and made for vertical installation around water. The Glossy finish is meant for framed wall use rather than backsplashes.

A soft microfibre cloth and water. No abrasive sponges, no ammonia cleaners. The colour lives in the ceramic surface, not on top of it, so the piece does not need sealing or refinishing.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is painted in the studio's own visual language and produced only by us. We do not license the work to other makers or print-on-demand services.

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