Ceramics · Painting · Fine Arts

Clay,
Canvas
& Soul

Handcrafted works that exist at the intersection of earth and expression. Each piece a meditation — slow, deliberate, alive.

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12+ Years of craft
Ceramics
Paintings
Liana Khachatryan · Artist

Shaped by
earth, moved
by color

My practice lives in the tension between control and surrender. Working with clay teaches you to listen — to the material, to the moment, to the quiet resistance that becomes form.

Trained in fine arts and drawn to ceramics, I create works that bridge the functional and the meditative. Each vessel, each canvas, carries the mark of its making.

Wheel Throwing Hand Building Oil Painting Watercolor Raku Firing Glaze Chemistry

The
Collection

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01

Vessel No. 14 — Earth Series

Ceramics · 2024

02

Grove — Oil on Canvas

Painting · 2024

03

Raku Bowl — Smoke

Ceramics · 2023

04

Undulation — Mixed Media

Mixed · 2023

05

Leaf Vessel — Stoneware

Ceramics · 2023

How a work
comes alive

01

Listening

Every piece begins with observation — of light, texture, nature, memory. I keep sketchbooks full of gestures and impressions before a single gram of clay is touched.

02

Shaping

Whether on the wheel or hand-built, the forming stage is where the dialogue begins. Clay remembers every touch, every hesitation, every decision made or abandoned.

03

Firing & Finishing

The kiln has the final word. I work with wood ash, raku, and reduction atmospheres — processes that require surrender as much as skill. The fire collaborates.

04

Color & Surface

In painting, I layer transparencies, building depth that shifts with light. The surface is never passive — it holds conversation across time.

"The clay knows things my hands are still learning."

Shows &
Recognition

2024

Earth, Form & Silence

The Clay Studio · Philadelphia, PA

Solo
2024

Material Conversations

Craft Contemporary · Los Angeles, CA

Group
2023

New American Ceramics Invitational

American Craft Council · Minneapolis, MN

Invitational
2023

Threshold — Paintings on Clay

Sasha Wolf Projects · New York, NY

Solo
2022

Surface Tensions

Museum of Arts and Crafts · Hamburg, Germany

International
2021

Fire + Water — Raku Works

Santa Fe Clay · Santa Fe, NM

Solo

Let's create
something
together

Available for commissions, exhibitions, collaborations, and workshops. Each inquiry is read personally and with care.

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Studio Brooklyn, New York