Atelier Ellis launches our Makers programme.
An annual initiative working with five renowned makers who inhabit the living arts.
Supporting those who feed us beauty through the living arts is as important to Atelier Ellis as the materials we use, how we work and the people who work for and with us. We want to show that what we do is about thinking and feeling and home, as much as it is about manufacturing.
We have been waiting to create this project since Atelier Ellis began. Supporting beauty in the domestic realm and sharing it with our clients and friends is at the root of why we exist. Our paint and colours should always be the conduit to conversations on how we live.
Each artist has been asked to consider how colour feeds their work and how what they make influences their notion of home and that of their clients. They have been invited to respond to this meditation with a personal conversation through their practice—documenting their thinking as well as creating specific pieces for our inaugural exhibition.
Joyfully you are able to visit the exhibition and see their work for yourselves.
The five artist’s will be revealed and showcased at the General Assembly Gallery, in Mayfair, London, highlighting the hand of the maker in their work.
All are welcome.
Exhibition
Thursday 5th - Saturday 7th February 2026
General Assembly Gallery
First and Second Floor, 12 St George St, London W1S 2FB
Thursday 5th February 11am - 5pm
Friday 6th February 10am - 5pm
Saturday 7th February 10am - 4pm
For further details please contact us
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.
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.
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.