Amanda Ribbans

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Amanda combines her printmaking with a career in graphic design, this influences her work, which is often bold and Amanda studied graphic design in London, often gravitating towards the print room where she explored lithography and screenprinting for poster design projects.

After graduating she became a designer and then the senior designer at the Southbank Centre. She was responsible for designing and illustrating the publicity material for many major cross arts festivals. Two of her posters were awarded ‘Best Poster of the Year’ by the International Society for the Performing Arts.

As a freelance designer she continued to work for the arts, as well as broadening her client base to include education and charities. The prospect of one day inheriting a beautiful Columbian press prompted Amanda to sign up to a printmaking class at Richmond Adult College where she rekindled her love of printmaking, but with an emphasis on screenprinting and linocuts. She now makes her prints in a garden shed studio, as often as her day job allows.

Her subjects are reactions to life experiences that have triggered a moment of happiness and often reflect her enjoyment of the natural world. She hopes that despite people not knowing the backstory, some of the emotion that motivated the image will transfer to the viewer. Her design background has an obvious influence on her work, which is often bold and reductive – a combination of observation and imagination.