Pottery workshop of Ararat Martirosyan
The work of Armenian craftsmen
Working days: Monday-Friday
Opening hours: 09:00-17:00
From Yerevan: 45.6 km / 48 min.
In Ararat Martirosyan’s pottery workshop you can not only admire the ceramic products made by the master, but you can also buy them and, if you wish, participate in a master class on making ceramic products.
His ancestors, who emigrated from the city of Mush, were still engaged in pottery in Western Armenia. At the age of 11, he began learning pottery from his father. He was educated and studied ceramics making at the Yerevan Art College. Later, over the course of many years, he developed his creative skills in the creative workshop of the People’s Artist of Armenia. SSR, potter Hmayak Bdeyan, where art was added to the production of traditional ceramics.
In 1980, he founded a studio in Armavir, where he began producing decorative and applied products. He won many awards, received the title of People’s Master in 1973, and participated in international exhibitions.
Ceramic products have been made in Armenia since ancient times, since all the necessary materials for pottery are available here (high-quality clay in Armenia has been known since ancient times), this makes it possible to study ceramics in all its forms. The oldest ceramic product found on the territory of Armenia dates back to the 7th millennium BC. Beginning of the 4th millennium BC. e. characterized as a new era of “pottery Neolithic”, when burning and crude decoration of pots were already known. And in the 3rd millennium BC. e. in Metsamor, along with the development of metalworking, a technical need arose for the manufacture of molds for pottery hearths. The transition to the Early Bronze Age in pottery is characterized by a variety of skills, with the use of colored clay, and increasing complexity of decoration, as evidenced by delicate fragments found during excavations.
