Origin of The Company

Beam Paints is an underrated watercolour company that is located on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada. It’s an indigenous company built on a multi-generational love for pigment, colour, art and innovation. The owner of the company was taught at a young age how to harvest hematite pigment from a mountain range near their home called the LaClouche mountain. Beam Paints is 100% Anishnaabe Kwe owned and operated in the reserve of M’Chigeeng First Nation, also employing paintmakers and woodworkers from their community.

Paint and ingredients

The paints are all made natural with materials foraged on Manitoulin Island and have zero plastic in the packaging. The paints are created with a mixture of lightfast pigments, gum arabic, and Manitoulin maple sap. That’s blended all together to create a handmade  saturated colour that looks absolutely gorgeous. The paints get shaped into half pans – their versions are called painstones – before getting wrapped in beeswax packaging made of beeswax cloth. Their pans (paint palettes) are packaged in slices of cedar and birch off cuts which they get from an sustainable indigenous lumber operation.

Paint Quality 

The paint quality of Beam is on the same level with other professional watercolour paints like Winsor & Newton and GOLDEN Qor. The paints are saturated and vibrant. Since they are made with lightfast pigments, their vibrancy lasts a long while. Beam has a wide selection of colours palettes ranging from your basic colour wheels, CMYK and RYB to glittery and iridescent colours and then to themed colour palettes based off food, nature and common sayings.