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.
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.
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 simple life
I asked my husband to ponder his perfect day.
I wanted him to conjure a portrait of home and homing in.
I asked him this particular question, as we have recently moved back to London after three years away. Three years of not London, not countryside either, but small city or big town living. Like falling in proper love, we keep feeling amazed at how lucky we are to be back.
In late 2022 we moved to Bath. A city that we had visited many times and had always enjoyed. On a sunny September afternoon, sun bouncing off Bath stone, a glass of wine and an anchovy snack - you could justify that you were in Rome, which is pretty near perfect. Add excellent friends, wonderful bookshops and wine bars to the mix and it seemed a splendid place to be. And this is where we should have paused. We should have sat outside the wine bar in February, perhaps imagined life there without the bookshops and friends
We had moved there both from a real need and a heartfelt but unknown desire for something else. What I understand now is that I was looking for growth as opposed to movement, and a perceptible shift in how we were living.