Welcome to the web site of Kate Noble. Since graduating from the Ruskin School, Oxford in 1985, Kate Noble spent a few years exhibiting her paintings and music drawings in Oxford, London and Spoleto. She now works almost exclusively with silk velvet to create wall hangings and tactile luxury items to wear. Each piece is a painting, achieving a gem-like quality by building up colour.

Her fascination with velvet has led her to research in Italy – Venice and Umbria, and to the Tanka in Tibet. Although travel and other cultures have inspired and had a strong influence, her design ideas, and interpretation, currently taken from the minutae in nature, are very personal. She is always keen to express her passion for colour, texture and design in fresh and innovative ways.

Many Craft Shops throughout UK have stocked Kate’s work, (Primavera Cambridge, Artizana Cheshire, American Museum Bath), and she has been a member of both the Oxfordshire and Devon guilds: her work is widely collected. She is a member of Makers in Taunton and has set up co-operative workshops in Wells, Somerset.