18 Facts About Henry Haig

Henry Haig was an English abstract artist, painter and sculptor but notable predominantly for his stained glass work.

Henry Haig studied painting and sculpture there for five years until called for national service in 1949.

Henry Haig refused an officer's commission on completion, preferring to return to his art studies.

Henry Haig applied for a place in the painting school of the Royal College of Art but accepted an invitation to the stained glass department, led by Lawrence Lee.

Henry Haig was at RCA between 1952 and 1955, and, having met fellow student Joan Salmon during this time, they were married on New Year's Day, 1956.

Henry Haig created fourteen dalle de verre windows inspired by the life of St Richard.

Henry Haig painted the sacristy door panels which are faced with enamels, gold and silver fused onto sheet steel, the left door depicting the Bishop's chalice and the right evoking the "shimmer at the entrance to Paradise".

Henry Haig's window contains 8,000 pieces of glass set in epoxy resin.

Henry Haig was commissioned to produce a window to commemorate the 50th anniversary of RAF Lyneham, paid for with funds raised from air personnel contributions.

Most, but not all, of Henry Haig's work is installed in religious buildings.

In February 1991, Henry Haig's "Minerva" comprising six windows was installed in a surgery in Bath, Somerset.

Henry Haig took inspiration from the phrase "praise to the Holiest in the height and in depth be praise" from Elgar's 'Dream of Gerontius' which Michael James, the church's assistant organist, had been studying prior to his death in 1981.

In 1994 Henry Haig provided the east window for St Stephen's York, replacing a window destroyed by arson in 1992.

In 1998 Henry Haig's windows were installed in the church of the Most Holy Name and St Edward, Shaftesbury.

Henry Haig started work on this in 1996, working with the congregation to refine the design, drawing on the colours of the windows in Nantes Cathedral.

Henry Haig used traditional construction with lead came and French, English and German mouth-blown glass.

Henry Haig created a window for the south aisle of St Mary's Church, Fordingbridge in 2000.

Henry Wylie Haig died in Yeovil on 6 December 2007, aged 77.