“Carla Kappa is an Italian-born artist. Coming to the United States she was immediately drawn to the American West. The open landscape is very powerful to her. She views the landscape and the sky as art forms only nature can create. Her homes, in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and high desert country of southeast Utah, are a constant influence in her organic ceramics. The Native Americans of the West have influenced the course of her work greatly.

She has taken their hand-building techniques and blended them with her own sense of Italian style.She hand coils the clay and stacks each coil one on top of the other to form these beautiful vases. The white ceramics are occasionally colored with pigment and can range from earth tones to vivid purples and blues.

She does not always glaze them in that she likes the purity of the whiteness and she likes the imperfections of her hand-building techniques to come through as well. Her ceramics have been referred to as being reminiscent of Georgia O’Keefe’s artwork. Their form incorporates art nouveau lines and the vases impart elegance in their style.”