Clay, fire
& the unknown
Wheel-thrown and hand-altered vessels made in Yerevan, Armenia — where every firing is a small surprise.
Freedom and uncertainty guide the work. A form begins on the wheel, then is cut, folded and pierced until it finds its own voice — ceramics as a miracle that repeats, again and again.
Selected works
Stoneware vessels with layered metallic glazes over natural clay tones. Each piece is one of a kind — open any of them to ask about it.
Make it yours
Turn each piece in 3D, compare three sizes and try other glazes. Your choices become a ready-to-send message.
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Sizes are approximate; colours are a digital preview. Every piece is thrown and fired by hand.
Ruben Pap
Ruben began learning ceramics at 22, working in a Yerevan studio and spending a decade experimenting with form, clay and glaze.
In 2012 he opened his own studio. His practice moves freely between art, design and functional ware — combining traditional wheel-throwing with cutting and altering that gives each piece a linear, living structure.
Layered glazes over warm brown clay are his signature, from deep turquoise to the bronze surfaces of his newest work.
“When I am making a piece, I never know what is going to happen.”— Ruben Pap
Process
From raw clay to the final firing, every step happens by hand in the studio.
Throwing
Forms start on the wheel, centred and pulled from a single piece of clay.
Altering
Rims are folded, cut and pierced while the clay is still soft.
Glazing
Glazes are mixed in the studio and layered over natural clay.
Finishing
Each piece is cleaned, checked and finished by hand — never exactly the same twice.
The studio
Komitas Street, Yerevan. Shelves of finished work, a wall of glaze, and a long table where pieces are shaped and shown.
See how the
miracle happens
Join Ruben and his team for a tour of finished works and live demonstrations of wheel work, hand building, glazing and decorating.
- PriceFree
- Group size1 – 10 people
- AvailabilityBy appointment
- LanguagesArmenian · English · Russian
- LocationKomitas St. 49/3, 14, YerevanMap