Henry Haig (9 February 1930 – 6 December 2007) was an English abstract artist, painter and sculptor but notable predominantly for his stained glass work.
Born in Hampstead in 1930, Haig's talent was recognised and encouraged by Jack Fairhurst, his art teacher at Richmond and East Sheen County School for Boys.
He 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.
[1][2] One of Haig's earliest public works is the concrete, glass and granite chip frieze in the booking hall of South Ruislip station.
[1][4] Haig's commissions gradually allowed him to give up teaching and concentrate full-time on his art, based in his home studio, a converted racquets court, in Fifehead Magdalen, Dorset where the family lived from 1969.
[7] One of Haig's best-known works is the memorial window for WPC Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot and killed while on duty during the Libyan Embassy siege on 17 April 1984.
The window, in the lady chapel of St Leonard's Church in Yvonne Fletcher's home town of Semley, Wiltshire, was dedicated by the Bishop of Salisbury on 17 April 1988.
Haig was commissioned to produce a window to commemorate the 50th anniversary of RAF Lyneham, paid for with funds raised from air personnel contributions.
[13] Haig's other works in Dorset also include the golden oculus for St Mark's Church in Highcliffe, which represents Alpha and Omega and fills a space in the gallery wall originally occupied by the organ.
[7] Also that year Haig's arched window was installed at All Saints, Newland, 'The Cathedral of the Forest', and dedicated, in 2000, to the memory of its donor, Joan and her husband, Henry Ludlam.
[20][21] Haig was commissioned to create a stained glass window to celebrate the millennium for St Michael & All Angels' church, Alsop-en-le-Dale, Derbyshire.