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October 21st, 2025


Member since 1999

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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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Sycamore Staved Vase

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


Hollow Form Vase with Finial

3 5/8" diameter x 8 1/2" tall (including finial).
Finial diameter down to 1/16".

Hollow form vase with finial stopper. Vase is spalted paper birch limb with a Yatoba (Brazialian Cherry) trimmed opening. The finial is Yatoba. Finish is polymerized tung oil.

© Carl Durance

Hollow Form Vase with Finial

Fibonacci Flare with a Cap

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


Bud Vase

3" diameter x 7" tall

Bud vase with water-tight insert turned from a block of spalted and worm-eaten apple wood.

© Carl Durance

Bud Vase

The Princess & The Queen

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


Chip-Carved Platter

9 ½" diameter x 1 ½" tall

Platter (low-profile bowl) turned from butternut wood with outer rim embellished with a chip-carved border design, finished wil polymerized tung oil.

© Carl Durance

Chip-Carved Platter
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