Simon Ripley is a Founder Director of the Double Elephant Print Workshop, based in Exeter, SW England. He comes from a family of commercial printers for the wine trade and grew up in the world of multi-colour, embossed and gold blocked labels for Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky or Beefeater Gin. Inheriting an 1850’s Columbian Relief Press from a stationery printer’s factory in Perth, Scotland set him on a journey for life. He specialised in Fine Art printmaking, with teachers Graham Clucas and Steve Thorpe at Plymouth University and became especially interested in the woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler: in particular ‘Essence Mulberry’ and ‘Savage Breeze’; her use of surface, colour and fine Japanese papers. The simple power of Munch’s prints, the politics in Tàpies and the abstract printmaking of Ian McKeever are all important influences.
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His work today is drawn from the world around him - not just the physical environment but conversations, music, politics and people. He desires to make a unique image that speaks of more than the sum of its parts - speaks of what it is to be human and reflects the fundamental questions of life back upon us.
Simon specialises in community, participatory printmaking with Double Elephant - taking print into schools, hospitals, prisons or public places, encouraging others to find their own interpretations of life through printmaking.
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