David Glendining

Canadian Ambassador

David has dedicated his life to perusing and mastering a wide variety of artistic disciplines. He has been a part time teacher for at least20 years in colleges, schools and universities throughout Canada. He has taught at Confederation College Thunder Bay On., North Island High School BC, Algonquin College Ottawa ON. University of Ottawa and is presently at the Ottawa School of Art.

In the mid 1970s David attended Ontario College of Art where he studied commercial art, illustration and bronze sculpture and casting. Then, in the early 1980’s, he was approached to do some court room illustrations for a particularly high profile murder trial. He then became the court room illustrator for many trials across Canada, which led to a job as Art Director for the CTV network at CJOH TV Ottawa.

David remained at CJOH as Art director/Production Designer for the next 10 years where he was responsible for set design, illustration, special FX, animation and court room illustrations. In the latter years of employment with CTV, David started his own small company called Summit Studios.

Today, David Glendining-Summit Studios specialises in design and fabricate museum displays, murals, sculptures, models, sets and FX. Sumit also designs and builds movie sets and FX for productions such as, Chasing Rainbows, Interview with the Vampire, Grey Owl, H20, 13th warrior and Decoys to mention just a few.