Go less than a mile and take the first right, onto Carman Road, where a small yellow anvil sign points the way. Go about half a mile and the Durand's Forge sign will be on your left. It's a small sign, so go slow!

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I have wielded a blacksmith’s hammer for over 30 years. With an extensive network of private and commercial clients, I have exhibited widely in such prestigious venues as:
The American Craft Council’s Rhinebeck and Baltimore fairs
Paradise City’s Columbus Day Weekend Show, Northampton (MA)
The Morristown (NJ) fall craft fair
The WBAI (NYC) spring and fall craft events

My work has been sold in respected stores and galleries including:
Portico/Portico Bed & Bath in SoHo (Manhattan), Westport and Greenwich (CT), and Short Hills (NJ)
Macy’s
America House Gallery (Tenafly, NJ/Piermont, NY)
Pendragon Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland

I have been spotlighted in such publications as:
The New York Times
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Inquirer Magazine)
New York Magazine (“Best Bets”)

I have a sculpture in place on the new Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre gates in London, England, and have made pieces for the National Park Service, for the Women’s Rights park (Seneca Falls, NY); for historic Great Camp Sagamore in the Adirondack Park (NY); for the Moot Court Room, Law School, Cornell University; and for private collectors, including executives at Corning Glass (NY).

I won the award for “Most Innovative Use of Materials” at the 1998 Philadelphia Furniture Show.

I teach blacksmithing classes at my Mecklenburg shop; participate in ongoing apprenticeship programs through area schools and agencies; and accept private commissions.