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Artist: Ronnie Graham
Originally from Co. Down,
Ronnie started carving in Belfast in 1981 .....
something to relieve the tensions of the time.
"It was bog-wood (oak, scots pine and yew)
that truly triggered the imagination and since
1982 I have obsessively worked on nothing else".
"It's the ancient nature of the timber that
intrigues and confuses ..... a 5,000 year-old
wood buried and preserved in the extensive bog-land
of Ireland. Some of these ancient trees died due
to climatic changes, others due to the farming
techniques of our stone age ancestors. Thousands
of years later, they re-appear due to turf-cutting,
land drainage and occasionally, tidal action".
Ronnie Graham
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