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.
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.
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.
Tiny places of joy
May we present 1L tins of True Matt Emulsion for your decorating pleasure.
There is a cupboard at the top of my home that is the keeper of many things. It is original to the house and is humble in its attic room design, as is the way of Georgian houses. It is one of those places that could go quietly un-noticed.
I also inherited a glazed built-in cupboard in my sitting room. Not original but perfectly lovely in its mid-century way. It was one of those additions we could have ripped out but chose not to, rather keeping as much house history as possible. Both cupboards were quickly washed in white in order to pause, and although completely fine just a little ‘meh’.
It feels a lot easier and oft financially prudent to sweep a whole room with one or two colours, rather than deal with the intricacies of detailed colour planning. Just as shoes/jewellery/hats can often be the hardest thing to ‘complete’ ones look, so is colouring in the kitchen island, the downstairs loo or the ceiling of that ‘weird’ back bedroom.
I am also aware that investing in 2.5L of emulsion when you just want to express a little creative freedom can seem a little decadent, or wasteful - or just too much of a guilty pleasure. But colouring in your house should be pleasurable. It should be fun, and it should be freeing.
To encourage your creativity, we now offer 1L tins in our True Matt Emulsion. Enough for that tiny loo, feature nook, mural, or pantry. What fun! You can create further joy by using the paint on interior cupboard doors or pieces of furniture, then finishing and protecting it with a coat of our beeswax. How 1980’s - in a good way of course. It’s an aesthetic alternative to using our Wood & Metal – but is only suitable for internal doors or furniture.
I painted the inside of our living room cupboard in Mollie – which is a lovely earthy green.
A sweep of colour and it has become our autobiographical Wunderkammer. Family photos and special objects sit with sticks, moss and memory markers of our family life. Everything feels elevated and protected by sitting inside this beautiful shade. I look at it every day and it brings me both joy and peace. All from less than a litre of paint.
Our cupboard at the top of the house sports an Axia cloak. One of my favourite deep shades, it’s neither brown, grey nor purple. It gives this humble door and space more value and hence more joy. It’s also a lovely soft full-stop at the top of the house.
Axia is our colour of the week – a reminder that small doors, rooms, nooks and loo’s are valuable and joyful spaces. Have fun painting.
Cassandra x
