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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

‘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 ...

RUSH Library has just finished its successful run of a captivating exhibition of fine bog oak pieces and watercolours by artist, Jim Kelly.

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

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 ...

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.

A partnership with Bushmills Irish Whiskey, the 'Bushmills x Lowden' F-50 features whiskey barrel wood for the back, 12th fret inlays, the bindings, rosette and head facings; while ancient bog oak is ...