Dennis Keeling

Art in Wood

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Mexican Vase Gherkin Lamp Segmented Flute 1 Segmented Flute 2

National Visitors Award, 2003
2nd place - Alexandra Palace, 2005*
UK AWGB Symposium, Loughborough, 2005
USA AWT Symposium, Louisville, 2006

 * To see how this open-segmented piece was made click here

Dennis Keeling is an amateur wood-turner, living in Great Missenden UK and a member of the Middlesex Wood Turners Association.  He has been turning since 1998 and has over the last few years specialised in segmented turning.  He spent a week with the world renowned wood-turner Bud Latven in his studio in New Mexico USA.  The urn he made during that week won the Visitors award at the International Woodworking and Turning Exhibition in Stoneleigh, UK in October 2003.

After visiting the US Woodturners Symposium in July 2004 he was intrigued with open segmented turning.  He purchased a copy of a software package called Woodturners Studio which helped design segmented pieces. 

He created his 'Gherkin' table lamp and won 2nd prize in the International Woodturners Competition - Prestige section in February 2005. 

Dennis Keeling's 'open flute 1', made from Whitebeam, was selected by the Association of Woodturners in GB, at its Annual Symposium in June 2005, for its traveling exhibition.  The flute stands nearly 70cm high ( 28 inches).

In 2006, Dennis created a new slimmer 'open flute 2', made in Ash, which won second prize in the Worshipful Company of Turners Felix Levy open competition in June 2006.  The flute stands nearly 70cm high ( 28 inches). It was then exhibited at the US Woodturners Association Symposium in Kentucky in July 2006 - next to pieces by David Elsworth.

In 2008, Dennis created his matching ebonised candlesticks in beech, which he won second prize in the International Woodturners Competition at Alexandra Palace - prestige section February 2008.

He can be contacted by e-mail on dkeeling@no-spam.dkeeling.com (delete the no-spam)