Breon O'Casey - Grey
A Christmas card by Breon O’Casey (1928 - 2011) - collage on card, signed on interior.
Son of Irish playwright Sean O’Casey, Breon was a versatile creative who worked as jeweller, weaver, etcher, printmaker, engraver, painter and sculptor.
After school in Devon and art school in London, he relocated to St Ives after seeing a film on the life of Alfred Wallis. He became fully immersed in the art scene and would stay in Cornwall for the rest of his life.
These cards, made as Christmas gifts for friends, evoke the simplicity of the art he produced in his later years - “geometric shapes, often arranged in rows of three, a number he found intriguing and magical, a shorthand for infinity”.
Recently mounted and framed.
H: 27 cm x W: 33 cm
A Christmas card by Breon O’Casey (1928 - 2011) - collage on card, signed on interior.
Son of Irish playwright Sean O’Casey, Breon was a versatile creative who worked as jeweller, weaver, etcher, printmaker, engraver, painter and sculptor.
After school in Devon and art school in London, he relocated to St Ives after seeing a film on the life of Alfred Wallis. He became fully immersed in the art scene and would stay in Cornwall for the rest of his life.
These cards, made as Christmas gifts for friends, evoke the simplicity of the art he produced in his later years - “geometric shapes, often arranged in rows of three, a number he found intriguing and magical, a shorthand for infinity”.
Recently mounted and framed.
H: 27 cm x W: 33 cm
A Christmas card by Breon O’Casey (1928 - 2011) - collage on card, signed on interior.
Son of Irish playwright Sean O’Casey, Breon was a versatile creative who worked as jeweller, weaver, etcher, printmaker, engraver, painter and sculptor.
After school in Devon and art school in London, he relocated to St Ives after seeing a film on the life of Alfred Wallis. He became fully immersed in the art scene and would stay in Cornwall for the rest of his life.
These cards, made as Christmas gifts for friends, evoke the simplicity of the art he produced in his later years - “geometric shapes, often arranged in rows of three, a number he found intriguing and magical, a shorthand for infinity”.
Recently mounted and framed.
H: 27 cm x W: 33 cm