Supple Snakeskin beaded fountain pen

Supple Snakeskin beaded fountain pen

This beaded fountain pen was inspired by a baby puff adder we found dead on the road some time back. It had the most exquisite patterning. (Only a pen-maker sees a dead snake and thinks, oooh, that would make a great colour combination!) The tiny Miyuki beads resemble...
Daisy (Buchanan) beaded fountain pen

Daisy (Buchanan) beaded fountain pen

If Daisy Buchanan were to write with a pen by Stanford Pen Studio, then she might well choose to write with this one. It has the ’20s, flapper girl, beaded cap, big eye makeup and long cigarette holder feel about it. Yet at the same time very, very chic and...
Svelte beaded fountain pen

Svelte beaded fountain pen

We are delighted to launch our new model of beaded pens, titled the Nandi model, with this the first pen in the range that we have named Svelte. The colours have been chosen to reflect a feeling of quiet luxury … understated, elegant, unpretentious, yet...
Puffins hand-painted fountain pen

Puffins hand-painted fountain pen

Lisa Strachan has painted these puffins, in their breeding season attire with multicoloured beaks and eye adornments, in such a pretty setting … lush greenery dotted with tiny flowers, with the ocean in the background. She feels passionate about nature and hopes...
‘The Grey Ghost’ illustrated fountain pen

‘The Grey Ghost’ illustrated fountain pen

Hanna Farmer’s ‘The Grey ghost’ is an amazing illustration of military history, made all the more astonishing as she drew and painted it on a fountain pen. She has managed to capture the essence of not just one but two aircraft carriers – USS...
Chameleon hand-painted Intwana fountain pen

Chameleon hand-painted Intwana fountain pen

Carla Nel’s chameleon, in her distinctive pointillism style, is both gorgeous and quirky. As Rachel points out in her Pen Porn blog, Carla’s take on a chameleon is a lot of fun. Its stance and attention are such that I can imagine a nice bug sitting just off the...
Ben-Hur hand-painted fountain pen

Ben-Hur hand-painted fountain pen

Part of the Modern Classics series Ben-Hur is an historical adventure novel by Lewis Wallace, published in 1880, and depicted here by Hanna Farmer in incredibly fine detail. This modern classic is set in the time of the oppressive Roman occupation of ancient Palestine...
Baby Elephants Playing With Bubbles fountain pen

Baby Elephants Playing With Bubbles fountain pen

Brandon Lodewyk recently asked for input on whether he should do more fine art or fun art on our fountain pens. One answer was, Why not do both? So he did. Here he has drawn two baby elephants trying to catch bubbles. One is standing on a book, which symbolises...
Gardening hand-painted fountain pen

Gardening hand-painted fountain pen

Gardening, painted by Hanna Farmer on a fountain pen made by Stanford Pen Studio, celebrates the joys of getting out into the garden and of and watching things grow. It’s about spring, and bees drowsy on nectar and dusted with pollen, and the dream of having a...
Japanese Koi painted fountain pen

Japanese Koi painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas has created a sister painting to her Japanese Cranes – here we present her Japanese Koi. As with her cranes painting, her koi pen is in traditional Japanese colours of gold, red and blue, and her stylised waves immediately speak of Japan! On the cap,...
Nishikigoi hand-painted fountain pen

Nishikigoi hand-painted fountain pen

This fountain pen, Nishikigoi (koi is a shortened version of this full name in Japanese) has been many months in the making. Kseniia has created an artwork with a burnished gold background, stylised koi in colours of saffron, salmon pink and pale yellow, with scales...
Fishing Village fountain pen

Fishing Village fountain pen

This painting of a fishing village on one of our fountain pens would make an excellent gift for a person who loves the sea. We live on the southern coast of Africa, where little fishing villages are still to be found. Hanna Farmer drew and painted this busy village...
Spring Tulips painted fountain pen

Spring Tulips painted fountain pen

Having grown up in the northern hemisphere, in Ukraine in fact, Yulia Glas is well aware of how wonderful it is to see signs of spring. She has lovely memories of tulips and the joy they bring after the cold of winter. She painted these tulips, in pretty shades of...
Spring Peonies painted fountain pen

Spring Peonies painted fountain pen

Spring is around the corner (for those in the northern hemisphere) and Yulia Glas is preparing to welcome it with this painting of peonies on a fountain pen. Her peonies have baby-pink petals, with centres of yolk-yellow, and accents in gold. The artwork is encased in...
What a Beautiful Day doodled fountain pen

What a Beautiful Day doodled fountain pen

Hanna Farmer’s What a Beautiful Day will transform the most bleh of days into a wonderful adventure. Her seaside town with a yellow paper boat bobbing on the water, hot air balloons wafting in the sky, a bunny having the time of its life as it swings below a...
Metamorphosis original art fountain pen

Metamorphosis original art fountain pen

On this fountain pen, Brandon Lodewyk has returned to his favourite medium, graphite, and to his love of combining the female form with nature. Metamorphosis refers to how each of us transforms over time, with the symbols of a curled woman emerging as if from a cocoon...
Barn Swallows hand-painted fountain pen

Barn Swallows hand-painted fountain pen

Renée Gerstner’s painting of Barn Swallows is such a delight. Whichever way one turns the pen, there are swallows everywhere. Two larger birds sit on a wire near the base of the barrel. Their colours are gorgeous – an indigo blue hoodie with a russet face,...
Homage to Gustav Klimt painted fountain pen

Homage to Gustav Klimt painted fountain pen

Gustav Klimt is Kseniia Nel’s favourite artist and here she has created her interpretation of one of his most famous works, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. In Kseniia’s painting Adele has a more wistful, enigmatic expression, while her clothes and...
It’s Raining Cats fountain pen

It’s Raining Cats fountain pen

Yulia loves cats and loves the fact that each one has a distinct personality. Each of the cats she has painted on this pen clearly has a unique character. There’s the coy cat, the übercool one wearing shades, the tom holding a flower eyeing the queen who looks...
Feathers hand-painted fountain pen

Feathers hand-painted fountain pen

Sometimes when I see an artist’s work on one of our pens for the first time it elicits an immediate, soul-deep feeling inside of me. With Zelna le Roux’s Feathers painting, it was an instant feeling of peace. I would love to own this pen myself as I...
Japanese Cranes painted fountain pen

Japanese Cranes painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas has created something very, very special on this fountain pen. Her cranes in traditional Japanese colours of gold, red and blue, in a very traditional Japanese style, are phenomenal! We are so, so, so impressed and hope you are too! Lana has mixed a very...
Love in a Mist hand-painted fountain pen

Love in a Mist hand-painted fountain pen

Lisa Strachan has painted one of the most delightful and easy-to-grow garden flowers: Love in a Mist or Nigella. The first time I saw a photo of one of these flowers I immediately fell in love and ordered a packet of seeds online (in the days before such a things was...
Candy Choc Worx fountain pen

Candy Choc Worx fountain pen

Did you love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl? And do you have a soft spot for candy (or chocolate as it is known here and in the UK.) If so, you are going to love this pen. It was inspired not just by the story, but by original illustrations drawn by...
Teal and Blue Petals painted fountain pen

Teal and Blue Petals painted fountain pen

By training, Carla Nel is a graphic designer. By heart, she is an artist. And she always brings a fresh perspective to her paintings on our fountain pens. This painting of blue and teal flowers against a white background has such a light, fresh feel about it. And the...
Born Wild hand-painted fountain pen

Born Wild hand-painted fountain pen

Renée Gerstner’s tiger portrait shows an animal that is undoubtedly wild, and those eyes show a warmth that could turn from friendly to fiery in an instant. She has painted her tiger in a jungle, surrounded by tropical plants, and with colour-coordinated...
Steampunk Octopi zen-doodled fountain pen

Steampunk Octopi zen-doodled fountain pen

Hanna Farmer at her best! Her imagination has brought forth two steampunk octopi; the one on the barrel has on its head an entire factory generating steam and driving the octopus’s machinery; large, glassy eyes, tentacles that are magnificently decorated yet...
Fragments zen-doodled fountain pen

Fragments zen-doodled fountain pen

Hanna Farmer is famous for her doodles, and this one, titled Fragments, captures some of her philosophy on life: We tend to look at the world as through a kaleidoscope, only ever seeing tiny fragments; never the whole picture. In reality, the world is like a fabric...
Catching the Moon painted fountain pen

Catching the Moon painted fountain pen

Kseniia Nel’s Catching the Moon combines the styles of Gustav Klimt and Vincent van Gogh, in a beautiful, whimsical painting with an imperious cat and a serene woman under a starry night. In fact, Kseniia says that if her previous Van Gogh-inspired pen, Starry...
Red Hot hand-painted fountain pen

Red Hot hand-painted fountain pen

I love it when Lisa Strachan combines her botanic art with her whimsy … as in this delightful painting of Red Hot chili peppers on a fountain pen. Not only has she painted the chilis, but also added the pretty white flowers that result in these little fruits of...
Garlands of the Fey Folk fountain pen

Garlands of the Fey Folk fountain pen

Yulia Glas says it took her days and days to attach multi-coloured gold leaf to each and every petal on this painting. She said it was technically one of the most challenging fountain pens she has painted to date. And we believe it was worth it! Surely these are the...
Celestial Travel painted fountain pen

Celestial Travel painted fountain pen

This painting, by Yulia Glas, brings to mind relying on the stars and planets for one’s Celestial Travel – whether that be by starship, sailing ship, or out of body experience. The colours are mind-blowing. Sol and Luna feel like deities and the distant...
Sage Shimmer painted fountain pen

Sage Shimmer painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas’s Sage Shimmer is mesmerising – as you turn the pen the sage and silver colours look as if they are liquid glass, flowing beneath the surface. Against the blackest of black backgrounds, the foliage and butterflies seem to emerge from the...
Circus Afro hand-painted fountain pen

Circus Afro hand-painted fountain pen

The fifth in Hanna Farmer’s Circus Series: Circus Afro. Her imagination is mind-boggling. This pen features a ring master crow, a rabbit magician pulling an elephant out of the hat, a blind mole tapping its way across the tightrope, and … a zebra with a...
Christmas Angels hand-painted fountain pen

Christmas Angels hand-painted fountain pen

This Christmas Hanna Farmer has outdone herself in creating an utterly, utterly gorgeous pen featuring Christmas angels. While supermarkets are driving us nuts with their Krissmiss muzak and exhortations to indulge in the joys of over-consumption, Hanna has managed to...
The Phantom hand-painted fountain pen

The Phantom hand-painted fountain pen

Hanna Farmer’s, The Phantom, is inspired by the novel by Gaston Leroux which was originally published in 1909. Stage and film productions since then have added to the story, which features the disfigured Phantom, and the singer who has caputured his heart. The...
Klimt tribute hand-painted fountain pen

Klimt tribute hand-painted fountain pen

Kseniia Nel has painted this tribute to her favourite artist, Gustav Klimt, on a fountain pen, combining ideas for it from two of his most famous paintings: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I and a portion of the painting Medicine. The latter was part of an enormous...
Pizzazz hand-painted fountain pen

Pizzazz hand-painted fountain pen

This painting by Hanna Farmer has so much pizzazz that if it were up for election it would win! If it were a stage show, it would be attract full houses every night on Broadway, and if it were a film it would be a blockbuster! The pen was made by us at Stanford Pen...
The Green Birds of Happiness fountain pen

The Green Birds of Happiness fountain pen

First Hanna Farmer painted The Blue Birds of Happiness on a fountain pen, and that sold almost instantly. Now she has painted The Green Birds of Happiness and again, using just a few shades of green, she has created birds with the most astonishing plumage. Her birds...
Clown Fish hand-painted fountain pen

Clown Fish hand-painted fountain pen

Lisa Strachan’s Clown Fish are brilliant! Just like Nemo, the main character on the barrel has a distinct personality of its own, and  looks either contemplative or winsome and hoping for a kiss. And judging by the romantic colours Lisa has chosen … gorgeous...
Lighthouse hand-painted fountain pen

Lighthouse hand-painted fountain pen

Renée Gerstner is an artist who lives near the sea and is well known for her charming paintings of penguins, whales, seabirds, a penguin riding a bicycle (!), beach scenes, and now this lighthouse. In miniature. She has taken to painting fountain pens as if she had...
Starry, starry night fountain pen

Starry, starry night fountain pen

Kseniia Nel’s Masters in Fine Art shows in her deep appreciation of Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night. She has captured not only the atmosphere of the famous painting, but also the frenetic energy and vivid brushstrokes that defined the Dutch...
Magical Golden Horse painted fountain pen

Magical Golden Horse painted fountain pen

Once upon a time there was a golden horse … . Yulia Glas has been painting magical creatures lately and this beautiful, magical, golden horse stands out as being extraordinary. The horse is painted in two tones of gold, bright gold and rose gold; with a...
Koi Living Jewels hand-painted fountain pen

Koi Living Jewels hand-painted fountain pen

We are delighted to introduce a new fountain pen artist, Renée Gerstner. Her very first pen, featuring koi, also knowns as living jewels, was a challenge for her but one we think she excelled at. Her fishes have a zen-like nature about them. The two on the barrel form...
Moonlight Feathers hand-painted fountain pen

Moonlight Feathers hand-painted fountain pen

Kseniia Nel has created such a fascinating painting on one of our fountain pens. These must be the magical moonlight feathers from some fantastical creature! Under normal light the feathers look wonderful. Against a teal background, the feathers are outlined in...
Hummingbirds and Lavender fountain pen

Hummingbirds and Lavender fountain pen

In this spectacular painting, Yulia has combined hummingbirds, with their intense, iridescent plumage, and lavender with its purples and violets and hints of green foliage, against a gold leaf background. The (imitation) gold leaf is extra special : it has a rose gold...
Amur and Snow Leopards painted fountain pen

Amur and Snow Leopards painted fountain pen

Yulia has painted two of the rare big cats comforting one another on this very special pen. On the left is a snow leopard and on the right an Amur leopard. They are painted against a silver-leaf background with a winter scene depicted in glittering violet, turquoise,...
The Blue Birds of Happiness fountain pen

The Blue Birds of Happiness fountain pen

Using just a few shades of blue, Hanna Farmer has created The Blue Birds of Happiness in the most glorious plumage. Her birds are fabulous, exotic creatures against a buff background. The pen was made by us at Stanford Pen Studio, painted and doodled by Hanna then...
Space Jam hand-drawn fountain pen

Space Jam hand-drawn fountain pen

Space Jam by Brandon Lodewyk Mates in space, jammin’ together Just for a little bit. Not knowing what they are about to create Will be the perfect fit. People loved it so much; crowd favourites they became, The asteroids pose no threat, The fancy dance moves...
Moon Wisps hand-painted fountain pen

Moon Wisps hand-painted fountain pen

Kseniia Nel has used a subtle palette to create this ethereal pattern … twilight-grey, shadow-blue, the flowers outlined in black, burnished pewter, and wisps of moonshine-silver that appear and then vanish again as you turn the pen. It has a magical aura and it...
Rhythm of the Night fountain pen

Rhythm of the Night fountain pen

Rhythm of the Night by Brandon Lodewyk So when the Big Wild Cats come to the city It’s always going to be a party And it ain’t goin’ to be pretty. Mr D.J. looking fly on deck Playing big party anthems is what we can expect. The sound waves will be so...
Floral Spirals hand-painted fountain pen

Floral Spirals hand-painted fountain pen

What an elegant fountain pen Yulia Glas has painted! Her spirals in tiny dots of gold are intertwined with leaves and flowers. Using a very limited range of colours she has managed to create a magical effect. Speaking of colours, Yulia discovered this Super Black...
Stardust hand-painted fountain pen

Stardust hand-painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas’s art on this fountain pen makes me think of what it would be like to paint with stardust. Her delicate floral pattern change from sapphire to violet as the light strikes it at different angles. And the background is painted with a special colour she...
Porcelain Cats hand-painted fountain pen

Porcelain Cats hand-painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas loves cats and she loves porcelain, and the two go together so well. Here she has painted cats in a Delft blue against a white background on our Jabulani model fountain pen. Her cats are cute, with floral patterns on their coats, matched with bows, ribbons...
Stained Glass Poppies painted fountain pen

Stained Glass Poppies painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas was aiming for a stained glass effect when she painted these poppies on one of our pens. She says it took her many, many layers to achieve the look she was hoping for … she used a glass bottle she had painted with poppies some time back and tried to...
Haute Couture painted fountain pen

Haute Couture painted fountain pen

Hanna Farmer’s artwork on this pen celebrates an haute couture studio in Paris in the late Victorian era. It was a time of ruffles, rouches, lace, ribbons, bows, crinoline cages, bustles, bustiers, voluminous petticoats, corsets stiffened with whalebone and...
Hello Summer! hand-painted fountain pen

Hello Summer! hand-painted fountain pen

Somehow Julia Glas has managed to shrink a huge wall painting of people on the beach down to a miniature painting on a fountain pen. Hello Summer! is the astonishing result. She has taken a unique perspective of people on the beach, viewing them from directly above....
Floral Tattoo painted fountain pen

Floral Tattoo painted fountain pen

Carla Nel’s tattoo sleeve designs on our pens are proving very popular and this pattern would make a stunning tattoo. It certainly makes a stylish fountain pen! Her floral design is stylised and symmetrical, with almost an heraldic feel about the arrangement of...
Harmony hand-painted fountain pen

Harmony hand-painted fountain pen

When Brandon Lodewyk thinks of the concept ‘harmony’ he immediately thinks of Africa … of freedom, of peace, of coming together as one. The concept of Ubuntu, which became internationally known when it was expressed by our late president Nelson...
Butterflies on Mottled Gold painted fountain pen

Butterflies on Mottled Gold painted fountain pen

Yulia’s butterflies are glorious! And beautifully offset against the mottled gold, or rainbow gold-leaf background. Each of our hand-painted fountain pens is a 1/1 original work of art. No-one else will ever own an identical pen, however if you would like to...
Burnished Leaves painted fountain pen

Burnished Leaves painted fountain pen

What a stunning pen. Kseniia Nel’s Burnished Leaves is the epitome of understated elegance. With a less-is-more aesthetic, her leaf motif against a solid black background is instantly eye-catching. On closer inspection, one notices that the leaves have actually...
Ocean Dreamland hand-painted fountain pen

Ocean Dreamland hand-painted fountain pen

Dreamland, painted by Hanna Farmer, shows whales sleeping as they do, suspended nose-up, tail-down in the water. Who knew! In the distance are other whales, shown as pale white dotted outlines, and shoals of pastel fish, which adds to the dreamy atmosphere. The pen...
The Trojan Horse hand-painted fountain pen

The Trojan Horse hand-painted fountain pen

The story of the Trojan Horse is part of a long-running conflict between the Greeks and the people of Troy. Hanna Farmer has painted many scenes from this period in miniature on this fountain pen. These scenes include the Trojan Horse, which ended the war when it was...
Exotic Birds hand-painted fountain pen

Exotic Birds hand-painted fountain pen

Hanna Farmer’s Exotic Birds are fabulous in their glittering plumage of silver, cyan, azure, jade, tourmaline, and aqua, and their beaks of jasper. Her background is a buff-white with wispy clouds of pastel violet and sky-blue. Like her birds, her glorious...
The Ice Dragon fountain pen

The Ice Dragon fountain pen

Dragons are beautiful but The Ice Dragon is in a class of its own. Kseniia Nel has created the most magnificent dragon … muscular with magnificent wings, terrifying with deadly spurs at the edge of each wing and talons capable of eviscerating their foes, armoured...
Magical Leaves hand-painted fountain pen

Magical Leaves hand-painted fountain pen

Kseniia’s Nel’s Magical Leaves is the epitome of elegance. I just love her subtle, sophisticated designs. The dark background has a dusting of silver and gold which gives a lustrous effect. The leaves curl gracefully up the body of the pen in shades of...
The Gypsies fountain pen

The Gypsies fountain pen

Hanna Farmer’s Gypsies is one of her best ever doodles on a fountain pen. She has captured the romantic mystique surrounding these travellers … their wagons, their music and dancing, their beauty and the ability to tell your fortune. For there is a...
Orchids hand-painted fountain pen

Orchids hand-painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas’ has painted these glorious orchids in a pearlescent pink against a green background that also has a pearlescent sheen. She has added a delicate, scrolled and dotted pattern at either end of the pen. We have completed the pen by mixing a custom resin...
Bunny Rabbits hand-painted fountain pen

Bunny Rabbits hand-painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas manages to capture my heart with her cute paintings and this one is seriously adorable. It reminds me of reading picture books to our boys when they were really little and the gorgeous illustrations that we would point out to them. Bunny rabbits were a...
Copacabana – part of The Mob series of painted fountain pens

Copacabana – part of The Mob series of painted fountain pens

Copacabana, is a pen painted by Hanna Farmer, as part of her series called, The Mob. The scenes were inspired by the movie Goodfellas, which is based on a novel Wise Guys, which was in turn based on a true story. It is a tale filled with crime, murder, paranoia and...
Little Italy – part of The Mob series of painted fountain pens

Little Italy – part of The Mob series of painted fountain pens

Inspired by the books and movies, The Godfather I and II, Little Italy, painted by Hanna Farmer, as part of her series called, The Mob. In such a tiny space, she has managed to portray Don Corleone, head of a fictional Mafia family. The barrel has a scene of the young...
Zendoodle painted fountain pen

Zendoodle painted fountain pen

Hanna Farmer finds doodling meditative, and this design in particular has a Zen feel about it. Hence, a zendoodle. She has used fresh colours of greeny-blue and yellowy-green, and we have added a section material that reminds me of the inside of a lime. With accents...
Fish Bubbles painted fountain pen

Fish Bubbles painted fountain pen

Fish Bubbles is a pen painted by Hanna Farmer at her whimsical best. She has doodled a young woman blowing bubbles, with fish in them. The fish look perfectly content as they float around in their bubbles, and she looks happy, her hair cascading down with paper boats...
Sous Chef hand-painted fountain pen

Sous Chef hand-painted fountain pen

Hanna’s Sous Chef reminds me of the animated film Ratatouille, with the rat that had a refined palate and was able to cook up the most mouthwatering meals. in her drawing, Hanna has mice concocting recipes, snipping herbs, adding seasoning, and a hen helping...
Black Magic Cats painted fountain pen

Black Magic Cats painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas’s black magic cats are exceptional. Each one has an inscrutable expression and is clearly bewitching. How Yulia manages to write the titles on the books’ spines is beyond me! They include: How to Fly a Broom; The Witches; Full Moon; Magic I and...
Bindi Cats hand-painted fountain pen

Bindi Cats hand-painted fountain pen

Kseniia Nel’s mythical cat series continues with The Bindi Cats. Her painting depicts cats covered in the most magnificent patterns of dark teal, lighter blue, light grey, charcoal grey and silver. She has also painted a crescent moon, stars, a silver-spangled...
Mosaic Rainbow hand-painted fountain pen

Mosaic Rainbow hand-painted fountain pen

Rainbows have so many happy associations for us. We love the warm, inclusive, welcoming, diverse nature of the fountain pen community and although Yulia Glas’s Mosaic Rainbow painted pen was not originally intended this way, we are proud to see it as a symbol of...
Psychedelic Mushrooms

Psychedelic Mushrooms

Carla Nel was prompted to paint a fountain pen with psychedelic colours and magic mushrooms. As it happens, Carla is a mushroom fanatic and has been drawing them for years, so these ‘shrooms are not only beautiful, they are also anatomically correct!!Her colours...
Cat’s Portrait

Cat’s Portrait

Beautiful commission painted by Zelna le Roux. Two very special cats
Dexter

Dexter

Dexter is a magnificent pet portrait that Zelna Le Roux accomplished as a commission. (@zelnalerouxoriginals).
Cats in Windows

Cats in Windows

Val Myburgh’s (@valburgh) painting, Cats in Windows, features not only the most gorgeous cats (and a mouse), but also has the most fascinating window shapes and interesting brickwork. Each window is different and each cat clearly has a character of its own. Val is of...
Rick 78

Rick 78

A very special commission recently completed by Val Myburgh (@valburgh): a 78th birthday pen. It features a few of the recipient’s favourite things including a bible verse, his vintage Packard, a braai (barbecue), The Mariners and The Seahawks, as well as playing...
Long Tailed Tit

Long Tailed Tit

A commissioned pen painted by Zelna le Roux. This very cute bird was a commission requested by a son who used to travel with his dad. This was their favourite bird, especially where the bird turns its head at an angle. His dad can’t travel any more. This was the...
The Stoker’s Son

The Stoker’s Son

A commission by Hanna Farmer (@hanna_designs_art): The Stoker’s Son, also featuring The Stoker, his pet Gizmo, and his steampunk flying machines.If you would like to request a commissioned painting on a fountain pen by Hanna, please send us a message. The...
Dragon’s Den painted fountain pen

Dragon’s Den painted fountain pen

Kseniia Nel is besotted with dragons. These two in their Dragon’s Den are Asian dragons and therefore have no wings, and do not breathe fire. They have typical nose tendrils (useful as most Chinese dragons were associated with water spirits and therefore needed...
Balance hand-painted fountain pen

Balance hand-painted fountain pen

Brandon’s graphite sketch, Balance, refers to how we are all striving to achieve that state of perfect balance in our daily lives. (I can so relate to this … I keep thinking that when I get the next chore done … when I get my admin in order …...
The Black Swan hand-painted fountain pen

The Black Swan hand-painted fountain pen

This fountain pen is a tribute to the film, Black Swan starring Natalie Portman, and to the moral of the story behind the film. We are thrilled that this pen is featured in the current issue of Pen World Magazine. The images on the barrel depict the dancer striving...
Mushroom Folk painted fountain pen

Mushroom Folk painted fountain pen

Carla Nel is crazy about mushrooms, snails, faerie folk, butterflies, tattoos … and has now combined these elements into a tattoo sleeve. (In other words a single cohesive design that could be tattooed over a large area such as an entire arm, giving the...
Dusky Pink Magnolias fountain pen

Dusky Pink Magnolias fountain pen

Kseniia Nel’s has strong memories of magnolias heralding spring in her homeland, Ukraine, and painted these flowers in celebration of their flowering season. She has showcased them against a pale blue background with a pearlescent gold shimmer that catches the...
Phoenix Old & New fountain pen

Phoenix Old & New fountain pen

This pen has the most amazing golden-orange-flame shimmer. It really looks as if it glows from within. Kseniia Nel has painted two phoenix birds, representing the old and the new. According to mythology, only one phoenix is alive at a time, and can easily live to 500...
Beetlemania hand-painted fountain pen

Beetlemania hand-painted fountain pen

Fantasy beetles of all shapes and sizes adorn this stunner of a pen by Yulia Glas. We have called it Beetlemania. They are in the most dazzling colours, with lots of sparkles, against a glossy black background. The effect is terrific. These guys would put the...
Knights of the Round Table fountain pen

Knights of the Round Table fountain pen

The story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is fascinating, and through tremendous research Hanna Farmer has managed to capture much of the history and legend on this pen. She has drawn Merlin, holding his staff with an owl nesting on top, the Lady of...
Picasso-inspired hand-painted fountain pen

Picasso-inspired hand-painted fountain pen

Hanna Farmer’s Picasso-inspired fountain pen has so many details it will take its owner months to find each one. There are ‘a few of her favourite things’ in this semi-self-portrait, with a cup of coffee, a Yorkie named Gizmo … who might also...
Cats and Companions fountain pen

Cats and Companions fountain pen

Kseniia Nel has painted this pen in a very distinctive style, with two serene, stylised ladies holding two very charismatic cats. The woman on the cap has on a blue dress and is holding a golden-ginger cat. The one on the barrel has golden-ginger hair and is holding a...
Berries hand-painted fountain pen

Berries hand-painted fountain pen

What a luscious pen! Yulia Glas has painted her favourite fruits: raspberries, blackberries, cherries, blueberries, strawberries, plums, blackcurrants, red currants, bilberries, cranberries, gooseberries, hippophae and peach blossoms. With their deep green leaves...
Gaudi painted fountain pen

Gaudi painted fountain pen

One of the most complex designs Hanna Farmer has ever painted on a fountain pen is this tribute to Antoni Gaudi. Hanna has always loved his work and has visited many of his architectural masterpieces in Barcelona. In this pen she reflects his fascination with natural...
Magnolias on Gold fountain pen

Magnolias on Gold fountain pen

Kseniia Nel’s painting of magnolias on one of our fountain pens has a bold yet refined quality. This pen features magnolias in a range of pinks, from a pale off-white, to dusky pastel pink, to a more intense cerise that blends into a deep pink on the same bloom....
Tree of Life painted fountain pen

Tree of Life painted fountain pen

Yulia Glas loved painting this pen. She included The Tree of Life against a gold background, a brilliant mandala-style sun in a rainbow of colours, night and day represented by the sun and moon in a yin-yang type juxtaposition, iridescent doves, another tree and lots...
Jewel Bugs hand-painted fountain pen

Jewel Bugs hand-painted fountain pen

Inspired by the enthusiastic reaction she got to Beetlemania, Yulia Glas has painted another bling bug fountain pen, this time called Jewel Bugs. Also on a black background, she has painted a ’70s psychedelic Bvlgari dragonfly with different patterns on every...
The Fox and The Butterfly fountain pen

The Fox and The Butterfly fountain pen

On the barrel, the fox is leaping for the orange butterfly. (The other butterflies are in monochrome.) In the foreground there is a close-up of the fox, with its black-socked legs stretched in front of it. On the cap, the butterfly is giving the fox a kiss on the...