Maps of Colour
We began Atelier Ellis with a deep-rooted desire to help people tell their story of home. Using colour and incredible paint as a conduit for conversations on place and the joyfulness and valuable luck of having a choice.
Our intent is to create colours and families of colours that hold around the human and lead you down your own path to home.
There may be one shade that sets you forward, or a trio of shades that you would like to place together. It may be intuitive; it may not be - but we hope our maps will help with guiding you towards your own personal colour palette.
For every colour in our collection, we have arranged a family of eight that we know will work together beautifully: two whites, two neutrals, two mid-tones, a deep and a surprise.
You may want to use all of them or just two, but knowing that this colour leads to that colour, we hope, will make for an easier choice and a much more creatively fulfilling approach. It also means you are at the centre of it all - which we believe is the best path we can each take.
Atelier Ellis makes natural, breathable, bio-based paint to help people tell their story of home
We’re an independent maker of colour, formulating, making, and selling exceptional quality paint. Our colours are thoughtfully researched to create the perfect backdrop for the stories that place people at the centre of their home. Find out more about who we are.
Ingredients and where they come from are at the root of why and how we make our paint.
The pleasure of making something exist that didn’t exist before.
There is something profoundly human in the pleasure of making something exist that didn’t exist before.
A tangible pleasure in using one’s own agency, hands, feelings and judgement to meld, shape, touch, handle and craft something real and physical. What it is to take something unformed and turn it into something beautiful. Milk becomes cheese, fabric becomes clothing and paint on walls becomes a home.
Making – making anything is part of the mundane everydayness of our lives. We make dinner, mend clothes, grow flowers and arrange vignettes of our possessions. Everyday doing what should actually be recognised as magical. To make well and to make things beautiful is to elevate and enrich how and what we live with. I think that the richest source of human happiness is the ability to make and provide for ourselves. We are as in control of how and what we live with as we can be – if we have the luck of choice.