Breon O'Casey (30 April 1928 – 22 May 2011) was an artist associated with the
St Ives School
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, née Reynolds, and playwright
Seán O'Casey
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. He was educated at
Dartington Hall School
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in Devon and, following his
national service
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duty, attended the
Anglo-French Art School, a small school in
St John's Wood
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, London, based on the French model. He was an apprentice to
Denis Mitchell and Dame
Barbara Hepworth
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, which informed his own later career. He moved to Cornwall, initially working in the artists' colony of
St Ives.
Although primarily a painter, he also made jewelry.
Breon O'Casey-related website with examples of work and brief biography
See also
* 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
1928 births
2011 deaths
20th-century British painters
British male painters
21st-century British painters
St Ives artists
Painters from London
People educated at Dartington Hall School
20th-century British male artists
21st-century British male artists
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