Fripp was an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society. He painted mainly military subjects and worked as a special artist for "The Graphic" and "The Daily Graphic" during various wars in South Africa including the Kaffir War of 1878, the Zulu War, and the Boer War; he also covered the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 and the Philippines campaign of the Spanish–American War in 1899. He exhibited "The Last Stand at Isandhula" (sic) and "The Attack on General Sir John McNeill’s Force near Suakim" at the Royal Academy in 1885 and 1886 respectively. The former is now in the National Army Museum in London, England, while the latter is in the collection of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regimental Museum at Salisbury, England, having been presented to the Royal Berkshire Regiment in January 1929.