 Doug Haslam
Doug is a full-time practising professional artist working primarily with wood. He designs and builds furniture for clients as well as creates functional and sculptural forms for galleries. He originally trained at the Sheridan College School of Crafts and Design (SOCAD) and since then has spent the past 25 years trying to perfect both the art and the craft of what he does.
Doug started teaching with Chinook Learning Services in 1992. He has also taught at the Kootenay School of the Arts, and in the “Series” summer arts program at Red Deer College. He loves teaching and sharing the skills he has acquired and inspiring others with the love he has for the material and the many ways of using it. “I really enjoy the interaction with students from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests who have come together with the common interest of making something with wood.”
Doug is a 5th generation Calgarian. His family settled here in 1905 when it was still part of the North West Territories and his great-grandfather was a woodworker who built many of the city’s early homes.
Doug designed and built prototypes for doors and hatches for the cutter-rigged, staysail schooner Isaura while living in Singapore in the early 1990s. He collaborated with 16 other artists to create a “cabinet of wonders” that toured museums throughout the USA for three years. Doug created a flying machine that has flown around the food court in Chinook Centre for the past eight years.
Haslam’s pieces can be found in public and private collections in Japan, France, Israel, Wales, the USA and throughout Canada.
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