Beam Paints Maple 11 Pan

This palette comes from the heart of our familys Maple Sugar Bush, colours inspired by the magical tree in spring with its chartreuse tree flowers, the silver grey and deep black of its trunk, the red maple colour and ochre colours of its leaves in the fall. And violet in the punky bark used by elders to dye porcupine quills for basket making. Set in a cross section of a dry sugar maple branch each one marked with unique marbling that comes from slow dry aging maple.

From our maple forest, tended and cared for by our family for generations, 1/2 inch pans sealed with hemp oil makes this a totally vegan palette from paint to wood.

Red Sugar Maple, Bread, Wild Rose, Cloudless Sulphur, Ultra Grey, Wintery Night, Timberwolf, Lake Huron Teal, Milkweed, Violet and Mars Black

Beam Paints is the result of a multi-generational love of pigment, paint, colour, and innovation. I was raised by my artist parents, Carl Beam and Ann Beam, and was taught from a young age how to harvest hematite pigment in the LaCloche mountain range near our home in M'Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. Beam Paints draws on my 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 that is a joy to paint with. From thick stripes to fine washes and details, quality is evident in every stroke. Our watercolours are shaped into paintstones, our version of a half-pan, before being wrapped in beeswaxed cloth. Our pans are packaged in slices of cedar and birch offcuts from an Indigenous sustainable lumber operation.