Our guest on today's episode is James L Hayes.  Many of you in our iron art tribe already know James but if you don't, he is an Irish visual artist who employs the use of iron and the casting of iron in many interesting ways within his body of work.  During this interview he covers all of this and more and I am so excited for you to get a chance to do this deep dive with him in this interview.

James L. Hayes' website: http://www.jameslhayes.ie

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