{"id":6957,"date":"2026-05-27T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yewtreegallery.com\/current\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:26:34","slug":"breon-ocasey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewtreegallery.com\/current\/breon-ocasey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BREON O’CASEY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Showing alongside the Maltby collection are original prints by the renowned multi-faceted artist BREON O\u2019CASEY (1928-2011).<\/strong><\/p>\n

He came to live in St Ives at the height of its artistic fervour in the mid-1950s when innovative artists from all over the globe were converging on the Cornish fishing village that had a name for flouting the artistic conventions of the day.\u00a0 <\/span>Here Breon thrived, moving between jewellery making (whilst working as a telephonist to feed his family!), sculpture assistant to Barbara Hepworth, tapestry weaving and eventually concentrating more fully on painting, print-making and his own sculpture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Brown Bird in Red - carborundum AP c,2004 \u2013 71 x 88cm - \u00a32,900<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Bird in Green - etching AP 2005 - 60 x 88cm - \u00a32,900<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Breon writes of his approach to printmaking:<\/p>\n

\u2018A print is a print, and I like to keep them simple. Picasso loved experimenting with different combinations of methods for his linocuts, whereas Matisse\u2019s linocuts are white lines on black; his etchings black lines on white \u2013 the simplest method.\u00a0 <\/span>I side with Matisse. \u2026At least as much effort goes into a print as a painting. The only difference is that they are sold for less money.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

This clarifies the equal validlity of painting and printmaking\u00a0 <\/span>- the latter by no means being inferior to the former, as is so often assumed!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Four Moons \u2013 carborundum \u2013 72 x 86cm - \u00a32,500 <\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Figure with Stars \u2013 linocut 2010-ed of 15 \u2013 51 x 69cm \u2013 \u00a32,750<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Triangles into Square II etching & linocut 2001- 67x86cm - \u00a33,250<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Purple Triangle \u2013 aquatint & linocut 2001 \u2013 ed of 20 \u2013 66 x 58cm \u2013 \u00a32,750<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Flower with Orange Dots \u2013 linocut \u2013 2001 \u2013 ed of 20 \u2013 \u00a32,750<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Mixing mediums in his work was something that Breon enjoyed: these following images are all linocuts and collage:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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BC7 Unique image (signed verso) 2003 \u2013 27 x 27cm - \u00a31,500<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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BC8 Unique image (signed verso) 2003 \u2013 27 x 27cm \u2013 \u00a31,500<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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BC9 Unique image (signed verso) 2003 \u2013 27 x 27cm \u2013 \u00a31,500<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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BC10 Unique image (signed verso) 2023 \u2013 27 x 27cm \u2013 \u00a31,500<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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BC12 \u2018Bump\u2019 collage -unique \u2013 23 x 23cm \u2013 \u00a31,800<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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In addition to these original prints, we are offering a giclee print of a painting \u00a0\u2018Tropical Bird\u2019 42 x 59cm unframed \u2013 ed 200 to be sold at \u00a3450 with 10% of the proceeds going to St Julia\u2019s Hospice in memory of Oona O\u2019Casey Connell, Breon\u2019s eldest daughter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\u2018Tropical Bird\u2019 42 x 59cm unframed \u2013 ed 200 - \u00a3450<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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