A spontaneous approach to printmaking with Simon Ripley
Placing the emphasis on not knowing
Simon Ripley guides us through a hybrid monotype / relief process, printing from MDF (just as easily lino), onto Japanese ‘Misumi’ paper.
In a similar spirit to Paul Klee’s advice of “taking a line for a walk” we pay attention to where the print wants to go in place of predetermined plate-making, colour decisions and the finished print.
The emphasis of this tutorial is upon facilitating “happy accidents”, intuition and adventure. By encouraging the spontaneous use of mark-making in response to each emerging layer of colour, the print begins to make itself and the work is only finished when everything seems to balance.
The emphasis of this film is not so much upon the method as a call to freedom from process and the traditional strictures of printmaking. It is a process that applies as easily to making a one-off mono print or producing a variable edition.
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A spontaneous approach to printmaking with Simon Ripley
Simon Ripley guides us through a hybrid monotype / relief process, printing from MDF (just as easily lino), onto Japanese ‘Misumi’ paper.
Simon Ripley guides us through a hybrid monotype / relief process, printing from MDF (just as easily lino), onto Japanese ‘Misumi’ paper.
Meet Simon Ripley
A co-founder of Double Elephant, Simon's work with Double Elephant is mostly in schools and health and community settings. His own practice is linocut and monotype. He comes from a family of printers – his grandfather having established a commercial label printers based in Leicester.
