They are considered a pair, as they are in the National Irish Visual Arts Library catalogue,[1] as they worked and exhibited together and shared a painting technique that Philip taught Barry, which concentrated on making the colour look luminous.
He attended Haberdashers Aske School in London and went on in 1954 to read nuclear physics at Trinity College Dublin[2] where he studied under Ernest Walton,[3] the Nobel Laureate.
The Bank of Ireland Arts Centre and Lavit Gallery records describe Philip Castle as self-taught.
Subsequently, they lived in a small villa within a carnation farm, overlooking the sea at Villefranche-sur-mer in the South of France.
He painted the Italian mediaeval: the Pallio in Siena, Venice and (later in his career) contemporary cities,[7] New York and London.
Barry's paintings are full of natural and organic forms, quite different concerns to the cityscapes and urban complexities of her husband's canvasses".
At art school Barry met her lifelong friend, the acclaimed Irish artist Pauline Bewick, ( who also bought a house near the Castle's, in Tuscany[11]) and the RHA president, Tom Ryan.
[14] Barry mainly painted a combination of landscapes and portraits; sometimes using incidents from the lives of eccentric saints or mythological subjects.
She also designed postage stamps for the republic of Ireland[15] Barry Castle died in Dublin in August 2006.