We think about colour and paint differently. We believe everyone should be able to live in a joyous, safe and beautiful home that tells their story. We are all different. Where and how we live is unique and we want our colours to help you find your joy, your haven and your personal narrative.

A flat path high, high up in the air, falling away – soft, rounded forms of the Downs to the left and a plump line of sky and sea to the right. This is the path to Firle. The Beacon being it’s starting point and its way, leading on to way. There is a magic here and it is a place that I love, that we love as a family.

I started Ellis Paint because I wanted to help people tell their own story of home - paint and colour as a conduit to story telling and memory marking. The notion of home has always been incredibly important to me, from the first understanding of what it could be as a child, to what I know is important to me today.

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.

I have visited Kettle’s Yard dozens of times over the last few years – six pilgrimages alone in the last few months before it closed for a long renovation.

To meet Malgorzata and Tycjan and be invited into their home and workplace was an utter joy. Quiet, beautiful, careful, delightful, detailed, welcoming - all of these things. And also storytelling - through Malgorzata’s wonderful pieces and Tycjan’s

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,

I met the Fontaine boys almost ten years ago at one of their famous sales. A visit to their old showroom in Margate was a wonderful assault on the senses, but more significant was the immediate sense that these were good, kind people.