Photo by Ceri-Wyn Thomas
Dr Felicity Inkpen (PhD, MPhys) is a neuroscientist and artist presently based in Edinburgh. Her Wellcome Trust funded PhD work, as part of the Neural Dynamics Programme at the University of Bristol, utilised both experimental and computational approaches to investigate the biophysical development of cortical neurons, looking at the physical phenomena and mechanisms that allow neurons to reach mature states of communication and begin to form functional networks in the developing brain.
Felicity left research science in Spring of 2022 to focus on producing work as a visual artist and writer, working to commission or distraction, and exhibiting in group and solo shows. Her work communicates multi-layered concepts in figurative images that draw on science, nature, mythology and personal experience as points of reference. A self-taught artist, she works in primarily in pen and ink, collage, oils and watercolours.
Photo by Willie Runte
Besides her own work, Felicity has worked as a trustee of the Bristol-based arts charity Artists First, which supports learning disabled artists in the city.