about
Kayla Noble is a contemporary artist and designer, specializing in woodfired ceramics. Her work explores themes of landscape, ephemera, and desire. She earned her BFA in Ceramics from State University of New York at New Paltz and has held artist residencies at Taos Clay, Salem Artworks, The Clay Studio of Missoula, Finca Carita, and Morean Clay Center. Kayla exhibits her work and teaches workshops nationally. Outside of the studio, she enjoys nature, particularly trees and rocks.
Woodfiring is an homage to the unpredictable, the primal, and the beautifully imperfect. Driven by the pursuit of form, I craft vessels that search for the expressive potential of clay.
In my work and processes I look for moments of tension and release. This allows for dynamic and spontaneous creations that speak to our human desire of touch, intimacy, and relation.
Clay and wood-ash have cyclical lives; movement and fluidity turn into stone and stillness and back again. By using these materials I can capture expressive moments in time that exist beyond what my hands can control.
