Shell Paints

Beam Paints is the result of a multi-generational love of pigment, colour, and innovation. Anong Beam, raised by artist parents, was taught from a young age how to harvest hematite pigment in the LaCloche mountain range near their home in M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island (the largest freshwater island in the world), Canada. Beam Paints draws on early educations in Indigenous pigment and expands it to encompass all paint traditions. A focus on high-quality pigment content creates sublime artist materials, with plastic-free packaging.
Lightfast pigments, gum arabic and Manitoulin maple sap blend together to create a handmade saturated colour. The watercolours and gouaches are placed into shells, reclaimed from a food factory and sanitised for a new life with paint.