Double Elephant Print Workshop - Old Bakery Studios, Spicer Road, Exeter, EX1 1TA - Double Elephant is an open access, community printmaking workshop.

The Double Elephant was established in The Old Bakery Studios, Spicer Road, Exeter in Spring 1998 by Simon Ripley & Lynn Bailey. Both are graduates of the University of Plymouth Faculty of Fine Art. The name "Double Elephant" is taken from the large Imperial paper size used in printmaking.

We offer courses and facilities in Fine Art printmaking at affordable rates.

Our aim is to encourage and support people to discover their creativity and we believe that anyone can make prints.

Simon Ripley.
Workshop Director

A very wide variety of people use the workshop. We support professional and semi professional artists as well as those new to printmaking. In addition we work with groups of people normally excluded from mainstream arts activity.

At Double Elephant we have high quality equipment and resources available to be used by our members and those enrolled onto courses.

Our facilities include :-

Bewick and Wilson 30 inch etching press.

1830's Albion relief press.

Portable Tofko proofing press.

Equipment for photographic screenprint stencils and photo etching.

Acrylic resist etching facilities.

a wide range of rollers, cutting tools and all other plate making materials.

The Double Elephant is a Co-operative Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England & Wales number 04433706.

Lynn Bailey.
Workshop Director