She was raised at Marlfield House, living there until she married a captain in the merchant navy, John Perry (1875–1965) on 4 October 1915.
They lived at the Perry estate, Newcastle, County Tipperary until it was burnt by republicans in June 1921.
[1][2] It has been assumed that Perry received some amount of formal art training, and she spent a few months in Italy as a young woman, but largely she appears to have been self-taught.
She worked almost exclusively in watercolours, and exhibited regularly with the Water Colour Society of Ireland (WCSI) from 1908 to 1970.
Over time her style developed, from muted colours and attention to close detail in her early work, to looser brushwork and a brighter palette.