The Alnwick Garden Cherry Blossom Orchard Framed Ceramic Tile
The Alnwick Garden Cherry Blossom Orchard framed ceramic tile is from an original painting by North East artist Emily Ward. Emily has transferred her painting onto a ceramic tile and the delicate colours look lovely with the glaze of the tile.
Emily Ward's painting shows the beautiful, delicate blossom lining the walkway in this famous orchard. The pinks, blues and pinks of the Taihaku blossom are mesmerising.
Emily's hand finishes each ceramic tile with her trademark splashes of colour adding warmth to this art gift.
The Alnwick Garden Cherry Blossom Orchard gift range can be found here
The Alnwick Garden Cherry Blossom Orchard
The cherry blossom orchard at The Alnwick Garden
in Northumberland is home to the largest collection of Taihaku Cherry Blossom trees in the world.
The story goes that a Captain Collingwood Ingram also referred to as 'Cherry' Ingram visited Japan to give a lecture to the Cherry Society. He was shown a picture from an 18th century book of a white cherry blossom tree, which was thought to be extinct.
Captain Collingwood recognised and placed it to a tree in Sussex, that was imported in 1899. He returned to Sussex, took some cuttings and returned to Japan to plant and reintroduce the Taihaku tree in 1932.
All the Taihaku trees in Alnwick Gardens originate from that tree in Sussex.
Ceramic Framed Tile
Each Framed Tile is hand finished by North East Artist Emily Ward. So although your ceramic framed tile is actually a print, no two tiles are identical. Emily hand finishes the tiles by adding extra paint to the ceramic tile.
The framed tile appears as if it is floating inside the frame.
Frames are available in White and Black Frames.
Each frame is 27 x 27 x 5cm
Colours may vary as each tile is printed individually.
