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 extraordinarily ...

Woodturning giveaway for 70k. This piece of bog oak has spent thousands of years preserved beneath the ground, shaped by time long before it ever reached a wood lathe. In this video, I turn that ...

RUSH Library has just finished its successful run of a captivating exhibition of fine bog oak pieces and watercolours by artist, Jim Kelly. Jim was born and reared in North Leitrim in an area rich in ...

An 83-year-old west Cork farmer with a passion for bog oak opened his first exhibition tonight. For decades Joe Kelly has been finding pieces of ancient bog oak while cutting turf on the family farm.

It took 20 people to lift each dense bog oak plank into the specially built drying kiln Work has begun to transform a rare 5,000-year-old oak tree, unearthed in a Norfolk field, into a "breath-taking" ...

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. But first he had to grow a ...

‘Dancing at the Crossroads’ themed sculpture created by local master craftsman to be presented to US President Joe Biden on St Patrick’s day Jeremiah Dennehy and his son Denis with the bespoke bog oak ...

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield, chosen by Quinnipiac University as the future custodian of the Great Hunger Collection formally housed in Hamden, Connecticut, is collaborating with the ...

A giant oak tree that lay buried in a peat bog on the Solway Firth for more than 7,000 years is being given a new lease of life. Craft workers are recycling the Stone Age timber into items of bespoke ...

Work has begun to transform a rare 5,000-year-old oak tree, unearthed in a Norfolk field, into a "breath-taking" work of art to be viewed by the nation. The 44ft (13.4m) Fenland Black Oak was dug out ...