Studied painting and printmaking in England and France, working at Atelier 63 in Paris and with Julian Trevelyan in London.

An elected member of Trace, the French printmaking association, and of the California Society of Printmakers, she founded Print Europe in 1991.

Landscape is a vital source of her inspiration as a printmaker and as a painter.

As a printmaker, she works mainly in intaglio techniques and has been developing collogravure for the past few years, which she sometimes combines with carborundum.

Group exhibitions include:

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 1984, 1990, 1991

UK-LA Festival, Los Angeles 1988

SAGA, Grand Palais, Paris 1988

Trace Biennale, Paris 1988, 1992, 1996 & 1998

US-UK Print Connection, Barbican Centre, London 1989

Art of the Printmaker, Royal Festival Hall, London 1990

Print Europe, Barbican Centre, London 1991

Suzhou Biennale, China 1992

Maastricht Biennale, Holland 1993

The Graphic Link, Royal National Theatre, London 1994

National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 1995, 1996

Kilen Galleri, Hvasser, Norway 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

Prix Trace/Reader's Digest, Bibliothèque Historique, Paris 1995

National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 1996, 1997

4th Block Internal Triennial of Graphics, Kharkiv, Ukraine 1997

L'Estampe en Liberté, Vert-Saint-Denis, France 1998

Trace Biennale, Paris 1998

The Graphic Link II, Oriel Gallery, Theatr Clwyd, North Wales 1998

Contemporary Print Show, Barbican, London 1999

The Graphic Link II, Billingham Art Gallery, Billingham 1999

Braintree Museum and Art Gallery, Braintree, Essex 1999

Solo Exhibitions

Ben Uri Gallery, London

Camden Galleries, London

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

Salford University, Salford, Lancashire

Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford

Royal Infirmary, Leicester

Radann Gallery, New York

Waterland Hospital, Holland

Galerie des Tournelles, Paris

Special Exhibition

The New Wilderness 1991-1995, a series of five etchings in a new Gallery on the Print Europe Site from 13th November 1998.

Article on the Julian Trevelyan Award

On 20th October 1999 Print Europe published an article about the Award written By Irene Scheinmann in which she explains his influence on her own work and that of a generation of printmakers, and also how and why she and Mary Fedden, Julian's wife, set up the award.

The article is fully illustrated with works by Julian Trevelyan and Irene Scheinmann.

The article also provides entry details for the National Print Exhibition as the winner of the award, worth £1000, is selected from entries to that exhibition.

Irene Scheinmann's work is represented in collections in the USA, Canada, Japan, France, Holland, Germany, Russia, Ukraine and the UK, and can be seen at Art Contact Limited, 2 Rickett Street, London SW6 1RU, England.