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We hope you liked our 2025 #ArtistAdventCalendar.

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December 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Merry Christmas to one and all.
For #ArtAdventCalendar day 24, two paintings that explore colour and dynamic turbulent movement.

Fluid Dynamics in Orange and Blue
Oil on board
80x30cm
Framed
2024

Entropy
Oil on board
30x30cm
Framed
2025

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December 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Day twenty four of our #ArtistAdventCalendar, and to celebrate all the hard work he will be doing later today,‘Old Father Christmas’, by Scottish artist, William Ewart Lockhart (1846–1900), in the collection of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Happy Christmas eve eve.

Two small drawings, each done within a 10x10cm square, each double mounted and framed.

ASH
Pen on paper
20x20cm
2022

SWEET
Pen on paper
20x20cm
2022

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December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Ann Macbeth for day twenty three of our #ArtistAdventCalendar.

🖼️ ‘Angels Garlanding the Infant Christ’, Ann Macbeth, watercolour heightened with gouache and gold paint.

Ann Macbeth was a British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author and a member of the Glasgow Movement.
December 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
We're nearly there folks. We're past the longest night, and nearly at the end of advent.

Here's #ArtAdventCalendar day 22. A painting from 2015 ish, a bunch of emotions contained in obsessive details.

Bereft
Oil on canvas
Framed

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December 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A design by May Morris for day twenty-two of our #ArtistAdventCalendar.

🖼️ Design for ‘Amis and Amile’ silk book pouch, May Morris, 1905, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social.
December 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From Edward Burne-Jones to John Duncan, Annie Swynnerton, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Anna Lea Merritt and William Holman Hunt, which was your favourite advent picture last week? #ArtistAdventCalendar
December 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Lantern Light with William Holman Hunt for day twenty-one of our #ArtistAdventCalendar and to celebrate the longest night of the year #WinterSolstice.

🖼️ ‘The Light of the World’, William Holman Hunt, 1851-52, @kebleoxford.bsky.social.
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
An Angelic Advent with Anna Lea Merritt for day twenty of our #ArtistAdventcalendar.

Inside Heaven’s gate are two angels – one carrying a scale to weigh the soul, and the other holding a crown of roses to welcome accepted souls.

🖼️ ‘The watchers of the straight gate’, Anna Lea Merritt, 1894.
December 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Turbulence Series, One, Two, and Three
Oil on board,
Framed
10cm x 15cm

Today's offering to the #ArtAdventCalendar

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December 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
An Annunciation by Phoebe Anna Traquair for day nineteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar.

Like many artists of the Arts and Crafts era Traquair worked in a variety of mediums, from embroideries, manuscript illumination, bookbinding, enamelwork, furniture decoration, and mural decoration.
December 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Golden Gotch for day eighteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar.

🖼️ ‘Alleluia’, Thomas Cooper Gotch, exhibited 1896, Tate.

His daughter, Phyllis Marian Gotch, often modelled for her father. She is here seen as the central figure, arms raised in prayer.
December 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Day 18 of my #ArtAdventCalendar , category is... CIRCLE

DIZZY
Pen on paper
20x20cm
2023

TEETH
Pen on paper
20x20cm
2023

As the circle of the year draws to its conclusion, ready to start again, so I look back on drawings done two years ago.

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December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Christmas correspondence with Annie Swynnerton’s ‘The Letter’ @royalacademy.bsky.social, for day seventeen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar.
December 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar day 16

Heartbeat
Oil on canvas
Framed
75 x 50cm
2025

Threads
Oil on board
Unframed at present
41 x 33cm
2025

Explorations of the movement of inks and pigments through water, rendered in oil. Meditations on movement and detail and colour.

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December 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Day sixteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar with John Duncan and his depiction of ‘Saint Bride’ being escorted by angelic intervention to the site of the nativity.

🖼️ ‘Saint Bride’, John Duncan, 1913, @nationalgalleries.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Edward Burne-Jones and a cast of his friends and fellow creatives depicted in ‘Adoration of the Magi’ for day fifteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar.
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This painting revealed itself to me as I was walking down to Ocean Terminal. I'd never seen the sky look so blue, and a boat look so red, nor the crane so yellow.

This painting is available, as are prints. Felicityinkpen.co.uk

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December 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Art Advent Calendar day 14:
A Cage of Realised Mortality
Watercolour on paper
2020
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December 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Which was your favourite artwork we shared this week? #ArtistAdventCalendar

From Simeon Solomon, to Marie Spartali Stillman, Marianne Stokes, John Everett Millais, Evelyn De Morgan, Robert Braithwaite Martineau and William Bell Scott.
December 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happy Advent day fourteen with William Bell Scott for our #ArtistAdventCalendar.

Depicting the Nativity scene in a dilapidated barn near Penkill Castle, Scotland. Angels watch from the rafters, as shepherds arrive.

🖼️ ‘The Nativity’, William Bell Scott, 1872, @nationalgalleries.bsky.social.
December 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
For day thirteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar, a festive scene from the genius mind and gilded hand of Evelyn De Morgan.

🖼️ ‘Glora in Excelsis’, @demorganfoundation.bsky.social , depicts the nativity scene when angels appear to the shepherds to announce Christ’s birth.
December 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you're enjoying my art advent calendar, you can see more of it at felicityinkpen.co.uk

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December 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM