Hampton Beach boardwalk
— — the long evening the ocean keeps open.
Not only on a wall.
“A wide concrete boardwalk runs the length of Hampton Beach between Ocean Boulevard and the Atlantic. Arcades, fried-dough windows, the Casino Ballroom, and a long line of beach chairs face the surf. The state park stretches three miles down the coast from Great Boar's Head to the Seabrook line. In summer the boardwalk runs late into the night; in October it empties out and the wind off the water carries the length of it clean. — from the studio
Hampton Beach boardwalk, 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.
Hampton Beach is a summer resort village on the Atlantic coast of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, about fifteen miles south of Portsmouth. The boardwalk runs along Ocean Boulevard for roughly a mile through the village center, fronting Hampton Beach State Park. The park covers about fifty acres and the public beach stretches three miles from Great Boar's Head south to the Seabrook town line. The state-owned Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, built in 1899, anchors the boardwalk and still hosts a summer music season.
The boardwalk and beach are open year-round, but the village is a summer operation. Most arcades, restaurants, and the Casino Ballroom run from Memorial Day through Columbus Day. Lifeguards staff the state park beach from late June through Labor Day. The annual Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Classic draws sculptors from around the world in mid-June, and free Sunday-night fireworks run through the summer. Metered parking lines Ocean Boulevard; the state park parking lot at the south end is the largest.
Hampton Beach faces due east into the Gulf of Maine, so the surf and the wind both come straight off open water. In summer the prevailing southwesterly carries the smell of fried dough and salt down the length of the boardwalk. In late September and October the wind shifts northeast and the village empties out; the long boardwalk reads cleaner, the gulls move closer to the surf line, and the Casino's marquee goes dark between shows. The Isles of Shoals sit about ten miles offshore.