Crumpled Night | Black Gloss Ceramic Sculptural Vase, 2026

Lysi Tsvet  

Lysi Tsvet is a contemporary artist working across painting and ceramics. Her work was presented at St. Petersburg Art Week at the exhibition halls of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists in 2026. Since 2020, she has studied painting privately with Mikhail Zhernosek, Honored Artist of Russia and member of the Union of Artists.

Growing up among the forests and fields of the Novgorod region shaped Lysi Tsvet’s lasting interest in organic forms, natural textures, and the beauty of imperfection. She works in oil and acrylic, moving between abstraction and figuration, while her ceramic practice is based entirely on hand-building with high-temperature clay and glazes.

Across both mediums, Lysi Tsvet deliberately avoids excessive symmetry and polish. She sees irregularity not as a flaw but as a quality shared by bodies, landscapes, trees, clouds, and other living forms. In ceramics, she sometimes takes impressions directly from natural objects, preserving their textures in clay and allowing the material to retain a sense of its origin.

Lysi Tsvet approaches artworks as “companions”—tactile, intimate objects meant to live alongside people. Her practice connects touch, memory, domestic space, and nature, inviting viewers to slow down and recognize beauty in things that remain uneven, changing, and imperfect.