[5] After graduating from École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, various reputable French art galleries began to feature work.
[6] This cultural diversity as well as Hayter's emphasis on experimentation and quick-pace work made this period one of immense artistic development for Steinhouse.
[12] Steinhouse found the process of intaglio printmaking physically challenging, but was extremely passionate about the medium, dedicating months of practicing lifting the plates, handling the press, and accurately working with the chemicals.
[6] Despite her being well versed in oil painting and watercolor at the time, intaglio printmaking became Steinhouse's preferred medium, and was used to create some of the works for which she is best known.
[6] Her work usually uses a warm colour palette, and has been described as muted, layered, abstract, and highly textural, with a softness found in French Impressionist paintings.
[12] Common motifs found in her work are landscapes, houses, and domestic objects, evoking the memory and ephemera of every-day life; often, she uses images taken from her immediate surroundings such as her window at home.
[6] For example, Steinhouse has used Miriam Waddington’s Into My Green World as inspiration for some of her pieces, which focusses on the beauty of nature as an antidote to the ugliness of modern urban life.
She has been included in preeminent international printmaking Biennials in Chile, England, Scotland, Venezuela, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.
[7] Recently, a major retrospective of Tobie was held at Stewart Hall in Pointe-Claire in 2012, and Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron had an exhibition of her work in 2015.
[12] At the time, Herbert was volunteering for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and was doing his master's degree at the New School for Social Research.
[6] "Giving life to a simple sheet of metal; accepting the challenge to confer to it a certain meaning and an individual atmosphere through the colour, the form and the content - this is fascinating for me.
It is a philosophy that comes with many years of practicing the "métier," with maturity, with the experiences of life itself, with a personalized sensitivity permitting the expression of one's own unique vision.