The Arts Council has expressed its regret at the passing of artist and Aosdána member Barbara Warren. 

Sheila Pratschke, Chair of the Arts Council said, "Barbara Warren is a great loss to the visual arts community in Ireland. She worked through a fascinating period of European art and studied under André Lhote, the famous French cubist painter. This influence can often be seen in her work which also has a strange flatness of both composition and colour, making it unique within the context of Irish 20th Century Art."

Barbara was born in Dublin in 1925, she studied at the National College of Art & Design, Regent Street Polytechnic in London, and André L'Hote in Paris. She later lectured at NCAD from 1973 to 1984.

Her solo exhibitions included the Dublin Painters' Gallery (1954, 55); Dawson Gallery, Dublin (1957, 61, 72); Taylor Galleries, Dublin (1982, 86, 92); and United Arts Club (1991). In December 2002 and January 2003, the Royal Hibernian Academy's Gallagher Gallery held a retrospective exhibition of her work, and the Taylor Galleries showed work from Ireland and Spain, which centresd on landscapes and still lifes. Recent work includes various paintings that evolved from sketch book studies

Group exhibitions included  the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual and Christmas exhibitions 1950 – 2005; Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1953–1967; Oireachtas 1960–early 1970s; Irish Contemporary Art in Germany – 7 artists 1955; Irish Painting, Hugh Lane Gallery, 1963. Irish Women Artists – 18th century to the present day; National Gallery of Ireland, 1987;  The Irish Figurists and Figurative Painting in Irish Art Dublin/ London, 1990;  Boyle Arts Festival;  Art of the State of New Direction, OPW, 1970 – 1985 and 1998; Florence Biennale, Italy, 1999.

Her paintings are held in the collections of the Ulster Museum, the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Office of Public Works in Dublin, the National Self-Portrait Collection at the University of Limerick, and the Haverty Trust. Group shows included: Irish Contemporary Art in Germany (1955), Irish and Dutch Painters, Hugh Lane Gallery (1963) and Irish Woman Artists Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, National Gallery of Ireland (1987). She won a Purser-Griffith travel scholarship in the history of European painting in 1955, the James Kennedy Memorial Award for portraiture from the RHA in 1990, and a career achievement prize at the Florence Biennale in 1999.

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