Adrian Swinstead found his vocation in a valley in Wales when, armed with a hefty piece of wood, he first learned the art of hunting for bog oak. Bog oak, for the uninitiated, is an ...

Kieran Tuohy's bog oak sculptures, among other Great Hunger artworks, will be displayed at the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany from September 27.

BOG OAK IS the name given to the wood from ancient trees preserved in peat bogs throughout Ireland. When dug up and exposed to air, the wood turns a jet black colour. During the 19th century, bog ...

The bog oak snare is the only standard size snare here and it is fabulous… at a fabulous price that extremely few can contemplate. It's worth noting, however, that classical musicians regularly take ...

‘Growing up, ‘bog man’ wasn’t a compliment, but the bog was always part of me’ What I Do: Brian O’Loughlin is a bog oak sculptor who makes art from 5,000-year-old wood from the Bog of ...

In 2015, Lorna May Wadsworth – the artist responsible for striking portraits of famous faces such as Margaret Thatcher and Jarvis Cocker – asked Neil Gaiman to sit for her.

BBC - A History of the World - Object : Casket - 2000yr old English Bog OakMy sister Anthea and I each have casket about 7" tall by 4" diameter, of turned wood, shiny black and an acorn to lift ...

The process of transforming a 5,000-year-old Norfolk bog oak into a work of art gets under way in a giant kiln.

Schoolboy brothers Ronan and Conor McGarvey, who make pens from wood in their back garden, breached Ireland’s tightest security cordon and written the deal of their young business lives.

The string instrument was made by craftsman Philip Taylor from the 5,000-year-old wood of a semi-fossilized ‘bog oak’ discovered at Wissington Fen, near Downham Market. And now people will ...

Some of the most remarkable trees in Norfolk range from a prehistoric fenland bog oak to the first cricket bat willow, and are linked with people… ...