For Summer 2026 we are showcasing Scheinmann’s intaglio colour etchings from the late 1970s and the 1980s. These works show her skill and originality as a printmaker, her growing command of colour and her juxtaposition of texture and form.
The earlier works centre around rugged, imposing landscapes, influenced by her memories of her homeland and the skies and rock formations she fell in love with when she visited Ireland and the West Coast of Scotland. Here, we begin to see Scheinmann’s emerging themes of the landscape as an extension of the human mind and emotions.
In her lunar landscapes of the 1980s, the connection between rocks, planets, mountains and the human body become explicit. The body is the land and the land is the body. This theme later developed into an active sense of human-influenced forms or totems placed in the landscape to stand guard and bear witness.
Bearing witness became an increasingly urgent theme of Scheinmann’s mature work. War and environmental destruction were central preoccupations that sparked Scheinmann’s ‘New Wilderness’ series of etchings and oil paintings of the 1990s.
