Beam Paints is the result of a multi-generational love of pigment, paint, colour, and innovation. Anong their head paint maker was raised by 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 their home in ’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. Beam Paints draws on her 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. Beam Paints is 100% Anishnaabe Kwe owned, and operating in their home reserve of M’Chigeeng First Nation. All paints and packaging are made from raw materials in their workshops in M’Chigeeng. Their watercolors are shaped into paintstones, their version of a half-pan, before being wrapped in beeswaxed cloth.