Breon O'Casey

Breon O'Casey
Born (1928-04-30)30 April 1928
London, England, United Kingdom
Died 22 May 2011(2011-05-22) (aged 83)
Occupation Artist and craftsman
Spouse(s) Doreen Corscadden (1961-?)
Children 1 son and 2 daughters
Parent(s) Sean O'Casey

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

Breon was educated at Dartington Hall School in Devon 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 jewellery 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]

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