The Golden Age of Cornish Art
Breon O’CASEY

Click on an image to enlarge

Please contact gallery@greatatlantic.co.uk or 01736 788911 to determine the exact location of this work



Duo MMIII
(2003) 37 x 47cm acrylic & collage £5,595


Fremantle Shapes
(1994) 10 x 19cm collage SOLD


Grey & Black zig-zags
(2004) 20 x 14cm collage £1,095


Black, brown and grey
(2004) 20 x 15cm collage £1,095


Brown and silver
(1987) 9 x 14cm collage £665


July
34 x 41cm gouache £1,750


Humdrum 1993
25 x 34cm oil and collage £6,000


Bacatelle I
15 x 20cm collage £1,750


Three shapes
8 x 13cm collage £665


Pink dots 2006
19 x 28cm watercolour £3,075


Red surrounded
(2006) 21 x 29cm watercolour £3,075


November
(1967) 33 x 48cm gouache SOLD


Green discs
(2006) 19 x 28cm watercolour £3,075


Autumn leaves MMIV
(2004) 29 x 44cm oil £6,650

Breon O’Casey (born 1928)
Painter, sculptor, etcher, weaver and jeweller, Breon O’Casey studied for three years at the Anglo French Art Centre and was assistant to Barbara Hepworth from 1959 to 1962 and also to Denis Mitchell in St. Ives. Son of the playwright Sean O’Casey, for most of his career Breon has lived in Cornwall and has been closely associated with the St. Ives School of painters and sculptors. He benefited from his friendship with some of the leading artists of his generation such as Peter Lanyon, John Wells and Tony O’Malley. His first one-man show of paintings was at Somerville College, Oxford, in 1954. He has regularly exhibited with the Penwith Society. His paintings have some characteristics of the St. Ives School, being small abstracts, often on irregularly shaped pieces of wood, executed in warm earth colours; simple, ‘primitive’ and eloquent in outline. Although his gold and silver jewellery won him an international reputation with connoisseurs and his hand woven creations have been targeted by knowledgeable collectors, he now concentrates on painting, sculpture and graphic work.