Carl Durance
(Creative Magic Design) | | Wiarton, Ontario, Canada |
About Carl Growing up on a large poultry farm in Ontario, working with his hands came naturally to Carl, instilling values of strong work ethic and respect for all things natural. His creative instinct and desire for challenge led to the position of Associate Director of a leading-edge computer software research and development group at the University of Waterloo.
Carl now focuses that creative energy and desire to learn to ever-increasing artistic endeavours. He is accomplished in different art forms, using clay, glass, metal, stone, and wood, including lampworked/flameworked glass, pottery, stained and fused glass, bird carving, glass enamelling on metal, jewellery, and wood turning. Carl lives in a tranquil country setting hemmed between Colpoys Bay to the North and the Niagara Escarpment to the South.
Carl started turning wood in the mid 1980s. He is currently a member of the Grey-Bruce Woodturners Guild in Kincardine, Simcoe Woodturners Guild in Barrie, Thames Valley Woodturners Guild in London, American Association of Woodturners, Segmented Woodturners, and Ornamental Turning International. Through a combination of instructional training and self-taught (trial & error), Carl continues to develop and refine his technique.
Carl shows his work and teaches a variety of classes at the Southampton Art Centre in Southampton and Stephen Hogbin's Intersections Wood Gallery & Studio in Owen Sound, and is a regular presenter at other guilds and public events.
For more information on Carl's work, you can contact Carl at lazy.bee@bmts.com. |
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 | Birdhouse Ornament Collection 1 ¾" diameter by 9 ½"-10" tall
Hanging birdhouse Christmas ornament collection using a variety of woods, including maple, black cherry, black walnut, mahogany, nogal, tulip poplar, pau amarello, paudak, hackberry, honey locust, and red oak, and a variety of coloured veneers, ShellAWax finish. © Carl Durance |
Ornate Vase Collection (left to right) birds-eye maple & ebony; apple & bloodwood; mahogany, walnut & bloodwood; ash & walnut, maple, mahogany, walnut & bloodwood, plus various veneers; tung oil finish; each about 6"tall and 2" diameter; © Carl Durance |  |
 | Birdhouse Ornament Collection Hanging birdhouse ornaments of various combinations of spalted maple, curly maple, black walnut, black cherry; rub-on-poly finish; approximately 1¾" diameter and 8" tall. © Carl Durance |
Collection of Celtic Kont Pens A collection of Celtic knot pens using various domestic and exotic woods and veneers with Music, Cigar, American, Sierra, and Maple Leaf pen kits. © Carl Durance |  |
 | Fibonacci Flare with a Cap Lidded vase using a bowl-from-a-board construction; lamination of cherry, maple, walnut topped with walnut wafer; sanded/polished to 1500 grit; tung oil finish; 7 ¼" diameter by 7 ¼" tall.
Represented Simcoe Woodturners Guild (Barrie, ON) at AAW's 25th Anniversary symposium "Turning 25 - A Celebration" exhibit.© Carl Durance |
Atop Cloud Nine Lidded bowl; flamed walnut base; top is 9-piece segmented rings of birds’ eye maple, black cherry, curly maple, and black walnut with a black walnut finial; sanded/polished to 1500 grit; tung oil finish; 6 ½" diameter by 6 ¼" tall.
Represented Thames Valley Woodturners Guild (London, ON) at AAW's 25th Anniversary symposium "Turning 25 - A Celebration" exhibit.© Carl Durance |  |
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