Carl Durance
(Creative Magic Design) | | Wiarton, Ontario, Canada |
About Carl Carl works in many media including wood (turned, 3D sculpture), glass (flameworked/lampworked, fused), clay (stoneware and porcelin pottery), and precious metal (jewelry).
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 concentrates on domestic woods, including maple, cherry, birch, butternut, and walnut. He enjoys using exotics on occasion. He likes to incorporate surface embellishments, such as air-brushed, gilded, or woodburned accents, on a turned piece.
Carl shows his work at the Southampton Art Gallery in Southampton and the Craft Ontario Shop in Toronto. He teaches a variety of classes at the Southampton Art School, 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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 | Apple Of My Eye 3" diameter by 3" tall
Walnut box with yellow-green enamelled lid and ebony finial, tung oil finish. © Carl Durance |
Sycamore Staved Vase 4 ½" diameter by 8 ½" tall
Stave constructed vase, 8 sycamore staves, accents of thick cherry veneer laminated with maple and black-dyed pear veneers (5 layers), hard maple burl top, walnut lip and base, 186 pieces, tung oil finish. © Carl Durance |  |
 | Spinning-Top Lidded Boxes Spinning-Top Lidded Boxes © Carl Durance |
The Princess & The Queen 2 1/2" diameter x 7" tall
Segmented stave-contruction lidded box pair turned from oak, walnut, and cherry laminate separated by black-dyed pear, sycamore and purpleheart veneer laminate with hard maple bottom and lid plus purpleheart and ebony finials. © Carl Durance |  |
 | Kaleidoscope 2 1/4" diameter x 10" tall
Kadeidoscope turned from walnut with maple end pieces and multi-layered veneer accent strips. Oil-filled magic wand object cell. © Carl Durance |
Looking Dizzy 12" diameter by 7" tall
Dizzy (or vortex) bowl, 20+ wood species, domestics and exotics, approximately 900 pieces, tung oil finish. © Carl Durance |  |
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