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.
A gentle and simple evolution -natural, breathable, bio-based paint
We’ve elevated our beautiful True Matt Emulsion and Steadfast 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 paints are exceptionally matt and clean smelling and safe for all homes and places.
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.
Falling in love with a stranger
I am invited into people’s houses to help make it into their home. Weaving a new story that is unique to them and them only. The building itself has usually stood for many people before the them, and although it may need to stretch or flex, someone else will follow behind with their own dreams of ‘home’. Proof that decoration is, in fact, a love letter.
We start our conversation with what colour works for them and the room we are in. I know that this is not what we are discussing. We are trying to find the key that will turn them and their house from strangers to lovers. To twig how they inherit a collection of walls and woodwork, but then weave them into a cradle.
I’m thinking of the life this new place will bring to them. Is it a deep desire to go back to the safety they felt as a child, or a mental deep cleanse towards a new narrative? Is it the place where their family will grow; or is it where their life will streamline? Thinking of love in its best guise, does this thinking, then decorating acknowledge that ‘I am home’?
Our bonds to a place are formed from memories, feelings, and others. Unpacking them into a new place we barely know, we craft a hopeful tale of I, You and We around our dining table. Me in my garden, you in your library. We order chairs, spades and bookcases to furnish our dreams of a good life.
