Every year around this time, Phillip Kingsbury, the face behind The Wooden Spoon Press, makes four new linocut Christmas card designs, using his home town of Malmesbury in Wiltshire as inspiration.
This year, he has focused on famous local historical characters, including them as ghosts in the town as it looks today; Ghosts of Christmas Past. Having grown up in Malmesbury, and now living there with his young family, Phillip knows the town very well and is able to twist perspectives and sketch from memory and imagination as well as study.
“Malmesbury has such a fascinating history, it is great fun researching the characters from the past and making linocuts of them,” comments the printmaker.
Phillip always starts his linocuts as very rough sketches, and then spends time carefully carving the lino. He hand prints all of his pieces in his small studio in Malmesbury using his beautiful and much-loved etching press.
Phillip is looking forward to attending a few Christmas markets within Malmesbury later this year with his new Christmas card collection.
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