Atelier ellis

What is it that makes us itch to get a paint brush in hand? Ordering paint samples before we have moved in our books, pets and armchairs. Creating folders and scrap books of what it will feel and look like, as we wait for the interminable legal process to make it ours – all ours.

I chat to Cassandra Ellis of handmade paint brand Atelier Ellis about her unique approach to colour and her new flagship Bath store...

Atelier Ellis makes beautiful, breathable, bio-based paint and colour to help you tell your story of home. Founded by Cassandra Ellis, we are independent colour makers. We formulate, make, and sell our own high quality paint in 107 colours rooted in the natural world, memories, marks, and fragments.

Many people have 9-5 jobs, where work is separated from home either by location or preference. But many others prefer a different kind of life; one where it is all mixed in together,

In the window sill behind colorist Cassandra Ellis’s right shoulder are rows and rows of seedlings. These green shoots are destined for the allotment she t

Home - this word or idea has become an intense load of thoughts, emotions and physicality over the last few months. Not just a place of refuge, but now a place of work, schooling and domesticity. All lived with an intensity that most of us have never experienced before.

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Atelier Ellis | Natural, Breathable, Bio–based Paint

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