Villefranche-sur-Mer Harbour

Pastel houses tumble down a slope on the Côte d'Azur to one of the deepest natural harbours in the Mediterranean. The Rade de Villefranche is deep enough that cruise liners anchor inside without touching bottom, only a few hundred metres from the quay. A small chapel sits at the water's edge, redrawn by Jean Cocteau in 1957 with fishermen and angels in single black lines. The local train from Nice arrives at the harbour itself, six minutes out. Late afternoon is when the bay turns the colour the painters came for.

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