Van Dieman's & Pen Chalet's World Oceans - Pacific: Polynesian Hibiscus

The World Oceans Collection

The World Oceans Collection is a year-long collaboration between Van Dieman’s Ink and Pen Chalet, celebrating the vastness, diversity, and quiet power of the world’s oceans. Each release explores a single ocean or sea through colour, movement, and light, expressed in carefully formulated fountain pen inks.

Designed as a cohesive series, the collection pairs a unified nautical box with distinctive bottle labels that allow each ink to speak for itself. Flowing currents, shifting depths, and reflective shimmer echo the way oceans move and change, from tranquil shallows to immense, unknowable depths.

Every ink is handmade in Tasmania using distilled Tasmanian water, crafted to balance beauty with reliable everyday performance.

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the heart of this collection. Vast, ancient, and endlessly varied, it holds volcanic fire, coral gardens, deep trenches, and open blue horizons. These inks draw from the Pacific’s extremes, capturing both its calm surface and the powerful forces beneath.

Pacific – Polynesian Hibiscus

Bright, joyful, and unmistakably tropical, Polynesian Hibiscus celebrates the vivid colour found along Pacific island shores.

A saturated crimson-pink base dominates the page, with a subtle golden sheen emerging where ink pools and edges form. The swatch shows high intensity colour with soft transitions and flashes of warmth that recall sunlight on petals and sea spray.

Polynesian Hibiscus is expressive and confident, a striking contrast to the deeper Pacific tones, and a reminder that the ocean is also a place of life, colour, and celebration.