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 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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 | BFAB Bowl 10" diameter by 4 1/4" tall
Bowl-from-a-board (BFAB) using laminated curly maple and roasted maple board. © Carl Durance |
Black Walnut Stave Vase 5" diameter by 10½" tall
Stave constructed vase, 8 black walnut staves, accents of thick pink-dyed veneer laminated with maple and black-dyed pear veneers (7 layers), hard maple burl top, curly maple lip and base, 251 pieces, tung oil finish. © Carl Durance |  |
 | Inside-Out Ornament Collection 1 1/8" diameter by 8"-8 1/2" tall
Hanging inside-out Christmas ornament collection using a variety of woods, including maple, black cherry, black walnut, red oak, nogal, and sapele, polymerized tung oil finish. © 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 |  |
 | 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 |
Cryptex 2½ inches diameter by 6¼ inches
Cryptex prototype, as seen the Davinci Code movie, with woodburned lettering. Passcode is LULALU, after Lulu the cat, to unlock secret compartment. Components made from elm branch wood, finished with tung oil. © Carl Durance |  |
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