Michael Doxey

Michael is an honour Graduate of the Ontario
College of Art. His numerous Prizes and Awards include the Hey Frey Award of the Ontario Craft Council, and one of his murals is on permanent display in Japan.

Michael is constantly expanding the art of ceramics by seeking out and developing new techniques and expanding his vision of the art itself.
When Michael Doxey examines work from a thousand years ago he looks for small fingerprints.
He sees how a person held the pot, how the maker left his body in the clay, and this gives him a connection to that person, his|process and the ancient joy that comes from the act of creating.
For this ceramic artist the processes of using the material ‘freezes’ a moment. Thus Michael’s works are like bookmarks – or frozen moments. His use of material supports living in the moment, and pushes the technical limits of the medium. The result is a form, a single piece, but in fact is really a continuum of creation.
The work symbolizes life forces. His work combines an artistic experience with a rugged functionality.
Michael is still exploring his childhood love of the Natural World, taking his influence from the waterways and rocks of his rural surroundings.