Jekyll Island
— — driftwood the tide laid out for the painters.
Not only on a wall.
“A barrier island on the Georgia coast, reached by a single causeway from Brunswick. The north end opens onto Driftwood Beach, a long stretch of weather-bleached oak and pine left behind as the shoreline retreated, the trunks lying where the tide put them. The middle of the island holds the Jekyll Island Club, the winter retreat built in 1886 for the Rockefellers, Morgans, and Vanderbilts, when membership held about one-sixth of the world's wealth. Loggerhead sea turtles still nest on the south-end beaches every summer. — from the studio
Jekyll 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.
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.
Jekyll Island is a barrier island on the Atlantic coast of Georgia, one of the four Golden Isles in Glynn County, reached by a single causeway from Brunswick. The island runs about 11 kilometres north to south and covers roughly 22 square kilometres, of which state law caps development at no more than 35 percent — the rest stays maritime forest, marsh, and beach. The whole island has been a Georgia state park since 1947, managed by the Jekyll Island Authority. Sea Island lies just to the north across St. Simons Sound, and Cumberland Island National Seashore lies to the south.
From 1886 to 1942 the island belonged to the Jekyll Island Club, a winter retreat for a closed membership of Northern industrialists — Morgan, Rockefeller, Pulitzer, Vanderbilt, and about a hundred others — whose combined wealth was estimated at one-sixth of the world's total at its peak. The first transcontinental telephone call was placed from the clubhouse in 1915. The Federal Reserve System was sketched in secret at a 1910 meeting on the island. The club closed during World War II and the State of Georgia bought the island in 1947. The historic district survives as a National Historic Landmark.
Access is by the Downing Musgrove Causeway from Brunswick on US-17, with a per-vehicle parking fee charged at the gate that funds the state park. The north end holds Driftwood Beach, a regular site for wedding and family portraits. The Georgia Sea Turtle Center on the historic district campus rehabilitates loggerhead, green, and Kemp's ridley turtles. The south-end beaches see active loggerhead nesting from May through October. The island has roughly 32 kilometres of paved bike paths, a horseshoe of beach hotels, and a small year-round residential community of fewer than a thousand people.