I had a dream about large drawings of fishes, so today I drew them

My latest painting: Red Mullet Oil on board 20x25cm 2025 Breaking the stalemate with my mind by returning to my current favourite limited pallette. Featuring the fish counter at Leith Market #painting #fish #oilpainting

I used to work in a place where one of the middle managers would comment that the younger folks ate like gannets. I heard her benign but strange words as I was painting this little gannet, experimenting with high flow acrylics

Starting this Sunday: A series of six 2.5hr drawing workshops exploring everything autumnal. Want to know more? www.felicityinkpen.co.uk/workshops

Don’t support big company. Big company don’t like you. Support small artist. Or just save your money.

Colony of Artists 11am to 6pm Abbeyhill, Edinburgh This Saturday and Sunday, 20th and 21st September

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Really doesn't seem like the time to start using AI to replace having to use critical thought

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

Hello Leithers! I'm going to be running a two day workshop on how to draw animals in various media, specifically, your pets! It will be at Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh on the 6th and 7th of September. Book your place here: felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com/product/lear...

New prints available, for all your fans of leith, light, and big blue skies felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com

Really enjoyed this @felicityinkpen.bsky.social Thanks!

The next exhibition I'm taking part in, at Foursticks Gallery in Falkland, Fife, with the Art and Nature Collective, from 1 - 30 August

Physics World Quantum Briefing as seen at the very spot in Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg had his pioneering insights into quantum mechanics 100 years ago in June 1925. Check the issue out here. physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

I was lucky enough to be invited on to the Physics World Stories Podcast to discuss my recent painting of quantum mechanics with the lovely Andrew Glester. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/67L7...

Drawing with code and machines. Each piece begins in #TouchDesigner, translated through a #penplotter. These are fragments from that process. Lessons in mark-making and letting go of precision. Now working from a studio share with @felicityinkpen.bsky.social #creativecodeart #plotterart #uunatek

My painting, Qubits, Duality, is the cover image of the Physics World Quantum Briefing, a special magazine for 100 years of Quantum Mechanics physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

Just wanted to share some good news that because a good friend of mine and fellow artist spoke up, a local arts guild and their annual market event has put into their bylaws that AI is not allowed. Just one person made a difference by educating the Board on how harmful it is to the arts community.

OPENING FRIDAY SETT STUDIOS 6-9pm

Patagonia at Dawn Oil on Canvas 2025

Coming soon to Sett Studios, Leith Walk

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Three Cranes, Leith, February Oil on Canvas 40x50cm 2025 Remember when the sky was that diabolical blue back on the sunny days of January and February? I took myself around the industrial parts of Leith to try to capture it. A long time overdue. #Leith #Edinburgh #industrial #Cranes #oilpainting

The Nature of Art, Edinburgh 25–27 April 2025 | Custom House, Leith Launch: Friday 25 April, 6–8pm The Art and Nature Collective proudly presents our work in Edinburgh for the first time #artexhibition #exhibition #gallery #Leith #Edinburgh

KALEIDOSCOPE OPENS FRIDAY 11TH APRIL The latest exhibition from @ootbdrillhall creatives and artists COME 6PM FRIDAY 11TH APRIL Poster design by @studio.taktile #leithlife #leitharts #Leith #edinburgh #ootbdrillhall #outoftheblue #outofthebluedrillhall

The future of art in a world with AI? Watching artists do the work, and face to face sales. The value will be in the human interaction, not the object.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the purpose of art, the conflict of creation and AI, and the political landscape we find ourselves in. We artists make things, and we're not always sure why, but the making is the important part, not the product. We make, we figure it out, then we communicate.

The light in Leith has been really gorgeous recently. Primary colours. Ocean Terminal. January 2025 Oil on canvas, 50 x 40cm #leithlife #leith #edinburghart #edinburgh #edinburghartist #oilpainting

I have new blue birbs available on my website, here: felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com

New substack. About parties, gigs, protests, Pitbull, and ladybirds felicityinkpen.substack.com/p/i-need-you...

A key friendship moment with my pal Josephine was watching a dumb film about werewolves, where, at one point, two women greet each other in the woods with the most hammed-up hug whilst exclaiming "my dear friend!" We since have greeted each other in this way while pretending we don't know how to hug

They screwed this all up.

Re: AI and the creative industries: This figure skating robot has been trained on data from thousands of professional figure skaters. Now, no one need learn to figure skate, they can get the robot to do it for them!

It is ironic that the one Alanis Morissette song I can't stand is her mega hit "Ironic"

Celebrity is a strange thing. Yesterday, I knew Armie Hammer as some guy with a rumour about cannibalism. Today, I know him as the guy who went on the Louis Theroux podcast and spoke for ages about how he *definitely doesn't want to eat people*.

Sometimes it takes a while to figure out the emotional core of the art I'm creating. The key to unlocking these paintings was the word "Turbulent". #art #fluiddynamics #thermodynamics #oilpainting

and now for something much lighter. from the #baftas

Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.

Latest artworks: Oil on card 15 x 10cm I've been painting these fluid dynamics paintings compulsively. I can't seem to stop. Yes, they're about my love of science, but I'm coming to realise that there's an emotional component, too: they're about the turbulent times we're all living through. #art

An admittedly strange essay, about Ceefax and compulsion felicityinkpen.substack.com/p/ceefax-and...

I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.

Technically, are centaurs insects?

New substack. About who holds authority in your life, and what happens when that breaks. Also, Marge Simpson. open.substack.com/pub/felicity...

SOLD Queef Watercolour on paper 2023 As featured in The Little Livingroom "period" issue. I was musing on womanhood with my paintbrush in hand and started painting bubbles without really knowing why. Then the title presented itself to me, and I laughed and laughed until it was finished.

Continuing the migration of my content from other apps, here's a little video about why my prints are limited edition. Tl;dr: I like going forwards instead of backwards, even if it means I lose out on easy sales. #printmaker #printmaking #artist

Another artwork sold. Arran Watercolour on paper 2022 My pal Andre swam around the Isle of Arran & I was one of the lucky friends who took a trip to support him. These were some of the treasures I found on that trip. #Arran #swimaroundarran #isleofarran #Scotland #painting #watercolour