Breon O'Casey

Breon O'Casey (30 April 1928 – 22 May 2011), the son of playwright Sean O´Casey, was a London-born and raised artist and craftsman closely associated with the St Ives School of painters and sculptors.^[1]

Breon was educated at Dartington Hall School and, following his National Service duty, O'Casey attended the Anglo-French Art School, a small school in St John's Wood, London, based on the French model. He was an apprentice to Denis Mitchell and Dame Barbara Hepworth, which informed his own later career. In St Ives too, he began making jewelry as a side line, although his main occupation was always painting. He continued making jewelry until he was 70 years old.^[2]

Family

In 1961, he married Doreen Corscadden; the couple had one son and two daughters, all of whom survive O'Casey.^[3]

See also

• St Ives, Cornwall
• List of St. Ives artists

References

Further reading

• A Celtic Artist: Breon O'Casey, Jack O'Sullivan with Sophie Bowness, Lund Humphries (2003).
• Obituary of Breon O’Casey, The Daily Telegraph, 1 June, 2011