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The Irish wood-carver John Haugh is not much known outside his own country but he has exhibited and sold many works in the USA. I was privileged to interview him many years ago and this sculpture “Dancing at the Crossroads” is one of my favourites of the many I saw in his studio in Carlingford, Co. Louth.
I especially liked the roughness of the carving which lends the work a rustic quality in keeping with the subject. This particular work dates to sometime in the late 1990’s
I love the theme – an idyllic scene…
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It certainly does.
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I’m glad you like his work. He specialised more in religious carvings but that may have been because he got a lot of commissions from the church. He was a lovely, gentle man and I treasure the few hours I spent with him.
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Yes, indeed. He has sculpted many of what I call ‘dense’ pieces with lots of movement in them, as well as doing a lovely one of John and Jacqueline Kennedy and the two children.
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