Danny Kostyshin’s vase - with its distinctive lugs - takes on human features. It’s as though he makes it dance. The combed texture and feldspar inclusions add to this vase’s energetic appearance.

Since the 2000’s Kostyshin’s ceramics practice has focused on both tea wares and ceramics for everyday use. He has found that the creation and the contemplation of ceramics brings a sense of calm and patience to daily life.

Danny Kostyshin’s career is representative of what could be called the second generation of British Columbia artist-potters inspired by the Mingei movement of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. In the early to mid 1970’s, he studied ceramics with Tam Irving and Sally Michener at what would become the Emily Carr College of Art & Design. And in 1984, Kostyshin collaborated on a series or Raku works with Micheal Morris, the co-founder of Image Bank and the Western Front Society.