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Felicity Inkpen (fliss)

@felicityinkpen.bsky.social
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Optimist. Interested in everything. Asks awkward questions. Artist and nerd. Surprisingly tall. Felicityinkpen.co.uk Instagram.com/felicityinkpen substack.com/@felicityinkpen

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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 4h
On being a painter in 2026. The painting: Inversion Oil on board 31 x 25cm 2026 #oilpainter #ohgodwhy #fluiddynamics #fluiddynamicsofart #socialmedia
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've been delighted by the response to this artwork, First of the Turbines. Just to let you know, giclée prints can be found at felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com/product/firs...
A print of the painting First of the Turbines, showing a yellow offshore wind turbine jacket tower at the Port of Leith at sunset.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Newhaven in Edinburgh gets the BEST sunsets. I like to run down to the harbour when the evening light is good and stare out to the bridges and to Fife with the sky on fire. This series of small paintings uses highly pigmented watercolour and black ink to capture the harbour with the dying light.
9 small framed watercolour/mixed media paintings of sunset views from Newhaven Harbour, Edinburgh. A small framed painting of Newhaven Harbour at sunset
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For folks who like the confluence of science and art, I'll be back at Wild Flower Portobello for the second weekend of Art Walk Weekends, 12-13 September, with live demos from 11am on Saturday artwalkprojects.co.uk/art-walk-wee...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover filming shows Nigel Farage celebrating illegal foreign donations Footage shows a plan to break electoral law by funnelling money from a US ‘businessman’ through a UK donor The donations funded a series of widely reported polls secretly commissioned by Reform
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New print launching this Saturday at wild.flower.porty for ArtWalkWeekends : Threads. Available from the Wild Flower Shop, 5-6 and 1213 September. Threads Giclée print of original oil painting 25 x 30cm Limited edition of 50 Part of the Fluid Dynamics Series.
A giclée print of an oil painting, Threads, showing a swirling cascading mix ofpigments through water.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My love is faithful my love is true. Prints available at felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com ##bigyellowthings #bigyellowguys #Leith #pleasedontgo
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Noooo don't go my loves 😭😭😭😭
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thanks to everyone who has already booked on to this. A couple of spots remain for folks in Edinburgh who want a friendly and relaxed way to get (back) into art: felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com/product/draw...
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Trying to give you a clue of where to find me next weekend
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Drawing workshops in Leith start on Thursday 17th September, and there's early bird booking discounts until midnight tonight: felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com/product/draw...
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Drawing in the Autumn Art Workshop Series
EARLY BIRD OFFER: BLOCK BOOK 6 WORKSHOPS FOR JUST £140 A seasonal series of drawing workshops at Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, EH6 8RG. 6 workshops, each 2 and a half hours Th...
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you're in Edinburgh, you can now get the tram down to Leith, where you can see the big yellow things, and then afterwards buy a print of them, here: felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com/product/firs...
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First of the Turbines, limited edition giclée print
30 x30cm with a border. Giclée print, limited edition of 100 Yellow towers, massive and strange, sit in the port of Leith, ready to be transported out to see to become off-shore eind turbines. The sun...
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For fans of the big yellow things in Leith.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton did so much good in the world, which means we all have to do a little more to make up for her loss and honor her memory 🫡
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
if avoiding an AI future constitutes a ‘generational L’ then christ just let me take the L www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...
If an Al future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and expecting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, l'll be left behind. Okay, says I! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since | first became literate.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'll be bringing my Fluid Dynamics series to Portobello for the Art Walk Weekends festival this September. Running over two weekends, the festival will showcase 70 artists over 53 venues. #artwalkweekends #portobello #shiftandflow #artistically #fluiddynamics #SciArt #scienceArt #ArtSci
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
felicityinkpen.substack.com/p/mystery-jam I wrote about quietly resisting unwelcome labels of neurodivergence:
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Mystery Jam
No labels necessary.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A newsletter about all the arts events I have coming up, because, tbh, there's quite a few and it's hard to keep them all in my head: felicityinkpen.substack.com/p/summer-art...
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Summer Art Update
Where to find my art and workshops in August, September and October this year
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
DRAWING IN THE AUTUMN Early-bird booking discounts until 31st August 🎨 Art workshops with all materials provided ⏰️ 6pm - 8.30pm 📆 6 Thursdays, 17th Sept to 22nd Oct 📍Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Leith 🐦 Early bird offer: Block book all 6 workshops before 31st August to get 27% off.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Pilrig Muddle Oil on board 40 x 50cm 2026 I walk past this artefact of the old trams just off Leith Walk most days on my way to the studio. Some days, the skies are so very very blue, and the buildings are illuminated in shades of yellow and gold. #Leith #leithart #pilrig #oilpainting #artist
Oil painting on board.  The giant wheels of an old tramline mechanism sit on a street in Leith, with a bright blue sky behind and sunlight illuminating the tenement flats.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I love Leith. Prints available at Felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com #leith #leithart #paintings ##oilpainting #artist
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In Leith, where I live, the skyline has been dominated by enormous yellow towers this year, rumoured to be shipped off to become off-shore wind turbines. This is the first oil painting I've done of these. First of the Turbines Oil on board 30 x 30cm 2026 #leith #Edinburgh ##oilpainting #artist
An oil painting on an easel showing a the Port of Leith at sunset with enormous yellow towers and a ship ready to transport them to sea.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's been back to back fish puppet making workshops this summer, but today I took a break to start a new Leith painting (very much a work in progress). The big yellow things in Leith. At sunset.
Work in progress oil painting of the Leith docks with the wind turbine base.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
£10 billion was wasted on dodgy PPE deals at the start of the pandemic. That's billion, with a 'B'. If you spent £10 a second, without stopping, it would take you 32 years to spend that much. And it was wasted, due to misuse, stupidity, and corruption. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected and wasted £10bn, Covid inquiry finds
Healthcare staff were unable to properly protect themselves, or those in their care, from dangerous infections, says the latest inquiry report.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I confess, I'm not much of a football fan, but I love it at the end of the match when they hold each other tenderly and whisper sweet nothings into each other's ears xxx #haaland #Bellingham #nowkiss #sketch #drawing
A pencil sketch of Erling Haaland and Jude Bellingham in a tender post-match embrace, with a heart encir ling them and the words "Now kiss!"
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In honour of Count Binface, a fellow Ceefax enthusiast, here's a very odd essay about addiction and the power on anonymity open.substack.com/pub/felicity...
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Ceefax And The Dopamine Hit
Or, The Addictive Mystery of The Brigadier
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Game on, Nige.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A vote for Binface is the vote for the people
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I need a serenity prayer for the fridge: God grant me the serenity to accept the food I cannot eat The courage to eat the veg past its sell by date that's fine And the wisdom to know the difference
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Everyone should play connections today, I guarantee happiness www.nytimes.com/games/connec...
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Connections - Group words that share a common thread
Group words that share a common thread. A new puzzle is available each day.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Bluesky marked my latest substack as "Adu|t C0ntent" because I wrote about Britney Spears and used a magazine cover image of an 18 y/o Britney from the year I turned 13. open.substack.com/pub/felicity...
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
TAX THE RICH. TAX AMAZON.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Few thousand people showed up today to stand up to racism in Leith
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
You ever see a photo of yourself and think, "Why'd I gotta look like that?"
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
TWO EXCELLENT EXHIBITIONS currently open at The Scot Art. I'm in the ace.of.wands.collective exhibition in gallery 1, alongside some phenomenal and gorgeous artworks, and there's an incredible ceramics exhibition in gallery 2 next door #edinburghart #edinburgh #artexhibition #artexhibit
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I wrote about being a music fan, despite it all. open.substack.com/pub/felicity...
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Don’t forget, this isn’t for you
I’m sorry I laughed, Britney.
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Byron @johnnyboyapril.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I think we would be better off with clean water and affordable electricity than a Google that scans information and summarizes for us.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Happy Pride and happy Solstice! The Corn Dolly Clock is an artwork about all the different versions of yourself over the course of a year, or a lifetime, or a single day. Which version of yourself are you today? Get prints at felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com/product/the-... #summersolstice
A clock of 12 corn dollies, drawn in pen arranged in a circle,  each representing a different feminine archetype.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Who says there’s no good news around these days? 🥳🎉🍾
bbc.co.uk
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
What is collage? EVERYTHING IS COLLAGE! Happy Guy Collage and mixed media on paper 60 x 42cm Thank you to my esteemed colleagues in collage who joined me for collage club, i.e. sitting around a table, ripping and cutting and sticking and seeing what emerged. #collage #seabird #birdart #Leith
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Every once in a while, I remember the guy I knew at uni who once got stopped and searched by police who found upon his person 64 packets of mayonnaise.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Such a strange happy-sad feeling to see a painting go off to live with a new owner. This one flew out of me, faster than any painting I'd painted before, and I love the energy that was captured in that process, working fiercely into wet paint. Prints are available: Felicityinkpen.bigcartel.com
Red Mullet oil painting on board,  red fish on a blue ice-filled tray, framed in a wooden frame. This painting has been sold.
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Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/felicity... New essay, about teaching art, and letting others solve the puzzle.
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The Spaces In Between
Learning what to leave out.
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