We create natural, breathable, bio-based colour and paint to help you tell your story of home and place.
Atelier Ellis treasures home in its truest sense - as a container for everything. An almanac of our homes as the holder of our possessions, experiences, palettes, people and place.
We want your home to be an uplifting container for the life, stories and memories that happen there. Our intensely pigmented, en terré colours are designed to envelop you and create spaces that are welcoming, calming and cocooning.
We craft our colours like an artist, using up to 10 pigments to create our perfectly complex, unique and nuanced shades. Every colour is both familiar and comforting, imagined from timeless human, nature and art-based ideas.
We hope they will inspire you to create the perfect backdrop for the way you wish to live.
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A gentle and simple evolution – natural, breathable, bio-based paint
We’ve elevated our beautiful True Matt Emulsion to a bio–based formula.
This evolution of our natural paint base includes a newly developed, beautiful, natural based binder – which is also new to the UK. We’ve formulated it to be better for people and their homes.
Our new, renewable, natural-based binder is created from bio-based materials including vegetable oil produced from waste, castor oil, linseed oil, sugar and bio ethanol. It improves both the materiality and performance of our already exceptional quality, virtually VOC free and fully breathable paint.
We also offer complete transparency of our ingredients and source locations. We source over 95 % of our materials from the UK, with the remainder coming from Europe.
With a unique colour palette created by Cassandra Ellis, our bio-based True Matt Emulsion is exceptionally matt and clean smelling. It is suitable for lime and gypsum plaster and is washable and safe for all rooms, including kitchens, bathrooms and children’s spaces.
Maps of Colour
Somewhere in that gathering of ‘things’ will be you, your home and the colours you want to live with.
For every colour in our natural paint 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, should lead you down a more creatively fulfilling pathway.
Like a beautiful map of colour it also means you are at the centre of it all – which is the best path we can each take.
Four books on the little and big questions in life.
Lazing at home has come to an end. Students piled onto trains on Sunday afternoon, children headed back to school, and we are mostly all back into our normal life routines – whether work, caring for others, or other life choices.
We have hopefully all had time to think about life and home and how one informs the other.
The great and generous stretch of twelve months of newness beckons - and with it comes options. Options are hopeful. Options help us project what this holiday in the sun will do for us. And we ponder what training for a 10km run will do for us too – both the physical and the mental gains. We of course think about our homes – lying on the sofa gives us the time to stare at our kitchen cabinets or the colour of our walls. If you are unlucky, others who have enjoyed your sofa also had time to share their thoughts.
I believe that knowledge is everything. Seeking it and then sharing it so that we understand the why before we chose the what. Maybe you think you want/need a new kitchen. Before you rush to the showrooms, perhaps a few questions about why it is on your radar. Who is sharing the space, do you like cooking, or perhaps a dining room that happens to be somewhere you prepare food is more your thing. Or maybe you’re thinking about it because you think you should rather than any actual need. Perhaps a lick of paint is enough. Perhaps a new piece of art hanging over the kitchen table would bring you more joy. Perhaps you actually want to move to the other side of the world, and these kitchen questions are a good distraction from your greater unspoken needs. These thoughts can be applied to kitchens, gardens, locations, jobs and living room colours.
So to start the year, I thought four books that I have read and re-read over the last year, might be a good starting point to the little and the big questions. Aptly, Foundation is our colour of the week. I think this is the very best colour we can start our year with.
Cassandra x
