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 concentrates on domestic hardwoods, including maple, cherry, birch, butternut, and walnut. He enjoys using exotics on occasion. He likes to incorporate surface embellishments, such as textured, air-brushed, gilded, or woodburned accents, on a turned piece.
Carl shows his work and teaches a variety of workshops at the Southampton Art Centre in Southampton, Intersections Wood Collaborative (formerly Stephen Hogbin's Intersections Wood Gallery & Studio) in Owen Sound, and, Owen Sound Artists Cooperative 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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 | Cherry Pens A series of "big classic" pens turned from a large black cherry knot. © Carl Durance |
Bravery Bead Bowl for Matthew Bravery Bead Bowl gift for Waleroo colleague's 14 year old son undergoing lukemia treatments; zig-zag feature ring; 16 segment rings; 388 individual pieces; curly soft maple, black walnut, blue-dyed veneers, wood-burned baseball knob (Toronto Blue Jays), tung oil finish; 8¼" tall by 8¼" diameter. © Carl Durance |  |
 | Feeling Dizzy 12 ½" diameter by 7" tall
Dizzy (or vortex) bowl, 20+ wood species, domestics and exotics, over 1700 pieces, tung oil finish. © Carl Durance |
Atop Cloud Nine Lidded bowl; flamed walnut base; top is 9-piece segmented rings of bird's 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 |  |
 | Maple Staved Vase 5 ¼" diameter by 11" tall
Stave constructed vase, 8 maple staves, accents of thick mahogany veneer laminated with maple and black-dyed pear veneers (5 layers), box elder burl top, ebony lip and base, 186 pieces, tung oil finish. © Carl Durance |
Cryptex 2 ½" diameter by 6 ¼"
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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