Chateau de Beynac

A square Romanesque keep on a limestone cliff a hundred and fifty metres above the Dordogne, in the Périgord Noir. The village below is one of the plus beaux villages de France: honey-coloured houses, narrow walled streets, a small church. From the ramparts the river bends and four other castles come into view across the water: Castelnaud, Fayrac, Marqueyssac, Les Milandes. During the Hundred Years' War the English held the far bank and the French held this one. The light off the stone is best in the hour before the sun drops behind the cliff.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.