Lana le Roux’s The Joy of Blue brings to mind Keats’s sonnet celebrating the colour, which includes the lines:

Blue! ‘Tis the life of waters–ocean
And all its vassal streams: pools numberless
May rage, and foam, and fret, but never can
Subside if not to dark-blue nativeness.

The modern poet, Christopher James, describes Keats’s sonnet: It’s a magnificent riff on the theme of blue. Yet unlike Picasso’s melancholy series, this is an ecstatic dance; a burst of joy; a glorious daubing of the colour. And so is Lana’s painted fountain pen. Lana has a fine eye for shades and tones of colour, and here she has brought this love of different blues together into an artwork that is indeed, a glorious daubing of the colour. She has taken dot art and elevated it into something sinuous and yet at the same time classic.

If you have not met her yet, Lana is the extremely organised Office Manager at Stanford Pen Studio, a talented artist, the person who creates section material to complement our pens perfectly, is apprenticing under Dave to make the fountain pens, and is the co-owner of an art gallery in her “spare” time.

The pen body is by Stanford Pen Studio, with a bronze section ring, cap band and logo medallion embedded in the cap finial.

Each of our hand-painted fountain pens is a 1/1 original work of art. No-one else will ever own an identical pen.