Kaanapali Black Rock Maui Ceramic Art Tile

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.

The Hawaiian name is Pu'u Keka'a, which translates roughly as "the rolling hill" — a reference to the cinder cone's shape. Hawaiian tradition holds it as one of the leina a ka 'uhane, a place where the souls of the dead leap into the next world.

The nightly ceremony remembers Kahekili II, the late-18th-century chief of Maui who was known for leaping from Pu'u Keka'a as a display of fearlessness — a practice called lele kawa. The Sheraton Maui has run the torch-lighting and a cliff dive at sundown for decades.

It is a basaltic cinder cone, the youngest visible volcanic feature on west Maui. It belongs to the Lahaina Volcanics, the post-shield-stage activity of the West Maui volcano. The last eruption of the Lahaina Volcanics is dated to roughly 5,000 years before the present.

Yes. The seaward face of the rock is one of the most reliable snorkel sites on west Maui. The reef drop-off runs about 15 to 25 feet, and the water is usually calm through the morning before the trade winds come up after noon. Green sea turtles graze the rock face most days.

Black Rock sits at the north end of Kaanapali Beach, about four miles north of Lahaina town. Public access is from Kekaa Drive, behind the Sheraton Maui Resort. The Honoapiilani Highway runs along the coast and connects Kaanapali to Lahaina to the south and Kapalua to the north.

Kaanapali, including Black Rock, was not burned in the August 2023 Lahaina fire, which destroyed most of historic Lahaina town to the south. The Kaanapali resort area paused operations as a community response and reopened later in the year.

It has been a meaningful gift for many of our customers with ties to west Maui. Kaanapali is one of the places people return to in memory long after the trip — first dives at Black Rock, sundown torches from the lanai. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The piece sits well in coastal-modern, biophilic, and tropical-maximalist rooms — anywhere the palette already runs to deep ocean blues, basalt blacks, and warm sand. The stained-glass treatment reads more painterly than literal, so it bridges traditional Hawaiian art and contemporary interiors without leaning into either.

Coastal-modern interiors are moving away from the gray-and-white palette of the 2010s toward warmer ocean tones and place-specific art. A piece tied to a real shoreline reads as collected rather than generic, which is where the category is heading.

Over a standard sofa, a single Large reads from the doorway. For a longer wall, a 4-tile Mural gives you the same sightline with more weight. A 9-tile Mural makes it the focal point of the room. Above a console, a Medium or single Large is usually the right scale.

Yes. We make the same artwork in two surfaces that hold up in wet rooms: Dura Satin (soft sheen, scratch-resistant) and Matte (no sheen). Both work as backsplashes, shower walls, and powder-room features. The colour lives in the ceramic surface, not on top of it, so it does not lift over time.

A microfibre cloth with water is enough for daily cleaning. For a backsplash, a non-abrasive household cleaner is fine. There is no sealant layer to wear off — the colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure and is part of the tile.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to our studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. We do not licence imagery and we do not resell other artists' work. Reid Wender curates each place that enters the WenderVista atlas and the visual is hand-finished in our studio.