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 that through conservation efforts we can ‘downgrade’ the puffin’s status from ‘vulnerable’ back to ‘least concern’.

Did you know that at the end of the breeding season puffins go through a partial moult and lose their colourful beak coating and eye ‘make-up’? They are seldom seen in this less glamorous phase however as they head out to sea once their offspring are self-sufficient and do not return to land until the following season. Other colourful facts (thanks to Wikipedia): Do you know what sounds the Atlantic puffin makes? Apparently when they are in their burrows they make a sound like that of a chainsaw being revved up, and in flight they are mostly silent apart from sometimes making a purring sound.

We could not reproduce these sounds on this fountain pen but what we did do is mix a custom deep-green colour for the grip section and add a hand-crafted silver cap band and section ring, and a silver-coloured logo medallion which is embedded in the cap finial.

Each of our hand-painted fountain pens is an original work of art painted directly on to the fountain pen. No-one else will ever own an identical pen.