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 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.
Foundation
How to paint well – Part One
People are often surprised that I actually know how to paint, and that I do paint a lot. I really, really love all aspects of it. I can twirl a sash brush with the best of them and roll (or preferably) brush a wall to perfection. On my wedding day, although a beautiful dress from egg was worn - I did find paint on my hands. Oh, how we laughed.
To paint well you just need two friends - preparation and patience. Do not lean into the exciting but chaotic acquaintance of rushed and unreliable. Almost all complications arise from this approach. Plaster that is not fully dry will fight back, dirty woodwork also.
Here are some winning tips on how to build the best foundation for your painting journey.
