Barbara Warren was born in Dublin in 1925 and studied fine art at the National College of Art & Design, Regent Street Polytechnic in London and with André L'Hote in Paris. From 1973 to 1984 she taught life drawing and printmaking at NCAD. Barbara Warren's work is primarily concerned with an investigation of the artist's environment, often focusing on rural landscapes, coastlines and still lifes. Her intaglio prints, oil paintings and sketches are sparsely populated, with earlier work featuring 2-dimensional, silhouette-like figures in delicately coloured paoramas. Later works play with perspective and the audience's viewpoint, with the edges of pictures often cutting through forms in a manner reminiscent of 19th century French Realism.
Barbara Warren was awarded a Purser-Griffith Travel Scholarship in !955 and the James Kennedy Memorial Award for Portraiture at the RHA Annual Exhibition in 1990. She was elected a Full Member of the Royal Hiberian Academy in 1989 and as a member of Aosdána 1990. Warren exhibited frequently in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the the Oireachtas Exhibition from the 1950s to 1970s. Solo exhibitions include show at Dublins Painters' Gallery; the United Arts Club, Dublin; and a career retrospective at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin in 2002 with catalogue essay by Dr. Julian Campbell. Her work is included in numerous private collections in Ireland and abroad, as well as the public collections of the University of Limerick, Boyle Civic Collection, the Ulster Museum, and the National Portrait Collection and several Government Departments.
Exhibitions with Taylor Galleries:
1992 Recent Paintings and Other Works
1986
1982
1972 (Dawson Gallery)
1961 (Dawson Gallery)
1957 (Dawson Gallery)