Biography
Draughtsman and painter, Haigh was born near Huddersfield in Yorkshire and raised on his uncle's farm. He sold his first painting aged 15; trained as a textile sample dyer, which gave him an early understanding of colour, tone and shape; then travelled the country painting and sketching.

After severing in the army during WWII, Haigh (who always insisted he was self-taught) attended Hatherley's School of Art (1946-9) under Iain MacNab, before going to Goldsmiths' School of Art where he met his future wife Patricia (who later became a commercial painter).

At the beginning of the 1950's, following a show at Wildenstein, Haigh was given financial support to work in France for six months by a Shell Oil executive and collector.

Between 1949-55 his work was included in a number of mixed exhibitions at RBA, NS, US, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Beaux Arts, Zwemmer Gallery, Leicester Galleries and The Redfern Gallery - but he then withdrew from showing to further develop his style. His early paintings were in the manner of Walter Sickert, whose work (along with Augustus John's) he much admired, but gradually he moved toward geometric abstraction, typically in a muted palette.

Haigh was a meticulous craftsman, noting each time he worked on a painting so that he could return to it, utilizing all available time from morning light until four in the afternoon.

In 1988 The Pride Gallery held a major retrospective. Ambiente Gero, Galeria de Arte, Valencia held a further show in 1991.

Haigh died in Chelsea & Westminster hospital in 1994 aged 80.