The Natura Dualis collection by Van Dieman’s celebrates the layered beauty of contrast in nature — not as conflict, but as a kind of harmony. Each ink in the series is formulated to express duality through colour: with split tones, riverlets, halos, and fluid transitions that shift across paper and nib. They are made to mirror the way the natural world changes moment by moment — glowing, fading, breaking, blooming.
Daybreak is the first light, full of motion and promise. If Nightfall is the hush before dreams, Daybreak is the breath before the world awakens. It captures that liminal sky when violet shadows are still present, but the pink warmth of a new day has already begun to spill forward. It’s a moment of clarity, but also of softness — nothing yet fixed, everything in flux.
On the page, Daybreak opens in a vivid rose-pink base that blooms with lavender shading and cool indigo rivering at the edges. It behaves like morning mist catching sunlight — one moment delicate, the next rich with hue. With broader nibs and high-shading papers like Tomoe River, the ink reveals dramatic tonal separation, while finer lines offer a calm, cheerful brightness. It’s a colour of renewal — confident, expressive, and full of light.
