Great Britain
— — the island the weather writes on every day.
Not only on a wall.
“The largest island in Europe — England, Scotland, and Wales, end to end. From the chalk of the South Downs to the granite of the Cairngorms, from the slate of Snowdonia to the cliffs of Cornwall, the country fits an unusual amount of landscape into 88,000 square miles. The light is famously soft. The rivers run salmon-pale; the moors are longer than any photograph of them.
Great Britain, 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.
The place, in three passes.
Great Britain is the largest of the British Isles and the ninth-largest island in the world, covering about 209,000 square kilometres. It comprises three countries — England in the south, Scotland in the north, and Wales in the west — and forms the bulk of the United Kingdom together with Northern Ireland. The island stretches roughly 1,100 kilometres from Land's End in Cornwall to John o'Groats in Caithness, and its highest point is Ben Nevis, in the Scottish Highlands, at 1,345 metres.
Great Britain's climate is temperate maritime, shaped by the North Atlantic Drift that keeps winters mild and summers cool. No part of the island is more than 110 kilometres from the sea, and prevailing southwesterlies carry weather inland in hours rather than days. Rainfall ranges from about 600 millimetres a year in the dry east of England to over 3,000 in the western Highlands. The light, low for much of the year, is what most painters end up writing about.
The major points are walkable by rail. The Caledonian Sleeper links London Euston to Fort William and Inverness overnight; the West Highland Line from Glasgow to Mallaig was voted the most scenic railway in the world by Wanderlust readers in 2009. Fifteen national parks cover about ten percent of the land, from the Cairngorms in the east Highlands to Snowdonia in Wales and Dartmoor in southwest England. The long-distance footpaths — the South West Coast Path, the Pennine Way — run for hundreds of miles.