Welcome to Colormaker Industries
Colormaker is a sustainable producer of eco-friendly house paints, swimming pool coatings, waterproofing membranes, floor coatings, textile screen printing inks, scenic paints and industrial coatings. An Australian owned family business, Colormaker has been manufacturing paint on the Northern Beaches of Sydney for 66 years. All Colormaker coatings are made in Australia using 100% renewable energy and sustainable practices. Learn more
Colormaker products are researched, developed and manufactured at our Brookvale facility under strict quality controls managed by a team of experienced chemists.
Northern Beaches Council Net Zero Expo
On Sunday 2nd June, Northern Beaches Council transformed Narrabeen Tramsheds into an innovative Net Zero Expo, showcasing all things sustainable and renewable. Colormaker MD, David Stuart, was part of the Net Zero Discussion Panel and Colormaker hosted a stand at the Expo. Learn more
Colormaker Sustainability Celebration
On Friday 5th April, 2024 Colormaker friends, family, staff and supporters from the Solar Alliance Brookvale gathered together for Colormaker’s Sustainability Celebration. At the event Zali Steggall, Sue Heins and James Griffin shared their perspectives on the importance for Northern Beaches businesses to harness the benefits of solar energy and local battery storage and outlined some of the initiatives that are underway at all levels of government to support our local businesses in their transition to net zero.
Colormaker’s Sustainability Celebration marked the official launch of the the ReVolve® battery – which is world-first technlogy, combining Relectrify’s world-leading BMS+Inverter cell-level control technology with battery packs repurposed from nine Nissan LEAF EVs to store 144 kWh of energy. This industrial level of storage enables Colormaker to soak up excess solar power produced from their 100 kW solar array during the day. The stored energy can then be fed back into the grid during evening peak, making the business more energy efficient. Since installation of the 100 kW solar array, Colormaker has saved over 700 tonnes of GHG emmissions.
Visit this link to see the speeches from Colormaker’s Sustainability Celebration
Foundation sponsor Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize
Colormaker is again this year the proud foundation sponsor of the 2024 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize. Artists have been tasked with sharing their understanding of the natural world, sustainable living and environmental challenges through their artwork, vying for a Prize Pool of $46,000. Finalists have now been announced, and the Exhibitions opens from 2-25 August. See finalists here
Supporting Mosman Art Prize 2024
Colormaker is proud to support the Mosman Art Prize, one of the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prizes in Australia. A strong field of contenders is expected for this year’s acquisitive prize of $70,000. Entries close Monday 1st July, and the exhibition of finalists will take place from 10th August – 6th October. Learn more here
Colormaker partners with Manly Warringah Sea Eagles
Colormaker Industries takes pleasure in announcing we are now a proud partner of Manly Warringah Sea Eagles for the 2024 NRL season.
“As a locally owned paint business, one that has proudly been manufacturing paint on the Northern Beaches for 66 years, we look forward to supporting the strong and successful Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. We are proud to align Colormaker with the Sea Eagles and look forward to connecting with Sea Eagles fans right around the country, but particularly here on the Northern Beaches.” said Managing Director, David Stuart.
Manly Sea Eagles Members can show their membership at the Colormaker Paint Store to receive a paint discount.
Colormaker receives Community Recognition Statement
On Monday 18th December, Colormaker Industries was presented with a Community Recognition Statememt by the Honourable James Griffin, MP, NSW State Member for Manly.
“Colormaker is one of the most ground-breaking businesses in my community and an exemplar helping to inspire other local businesses. In October an innovative ReVolve® battery – created by using recycled electric vehicle batteries – was switched on at Colormaker’s Brookvale factory and connected to the grid. This system enables Colormaker to use its solar array during the day, whilst feeding excess stored energy back into the grid overnight. Once again congratulations to Managing Director David Stuart and the team at Colormaker Industries on these fantastic achievements.” said Mr Griffin.
Colormaker wins three Sustainability Awards
2023 was a busy year for the Colormaker team, with the business winning three sustainability awards.
- In April 2023 Colormaker was awarded the Solar Champion Award by the Solar Alliance Brookvale for its commitment to reducing the business’ environmental impact.
- In July 2023, Colormaker Industries was awarded the Winner of the Northern Beaches Business Sustainability Award 2023. For this award, Colormaker was identified as an industry leader through the development of PERMASET eco-friendly inks and investment in an innovative solar installation, which has seen significant savings to both their energy bills and carbon emissions.
Olga Melicharek, Patricia Del Favero, David Stuart and Mehdi Ahmadi from Colormaker with the Northern Beaches Business Sustainability Award. - Then in October 2023, Colormaker was recognised by Business NSW through being awarded the Winner of the Excellence in Sustainability Award for the Metro Sydney region. This award recognises a business that had demonstrated its commitment to sustainable business practices and is working to reduce the impact of its operations on the environment.
Tread lightly on the Earth with Colormaker eco-friendly house paints
Colormaker sustainably manufactures a high-quality range of eco-friendly interior and exterior house paints, and sells to the trade and the public from their paint shop in Brookvale.
What makes Colormaker paints so eco-friendly?
Colormaker employs a number of measures to reduce the environmental impact of the coatings they produce. Learn more about Colormaker eco-friendly house paints
Colormaker celebrates 65 years
In 2023 Colormaker celebrated 65 years of making paint. The paint manufacturer has come a long way since inception in 1958, as a small manufacturer based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, to the sustainable paint company making eco-friendly paints and inks, powered by 100% renewable energy that they are today. Colormaker celebrated their birthday with an event on Friday 28th April 2023.
Learn more about Colormaker’s history
New ACRYLMERIC® Sportscote PFR colour range popular for school sports courts
Learn more about choosing ACRYLMERIC Sportscote PFR colours here.
Maritime Museum unveils exciting mural by Brookvale artist Ink Hunter
The Australian National Maritime Museum has unveiled a commissioned mural from Brookvale artist InkHunter, painted with Colormaker’s LUXAPOOL Poolside & Paving non-slip paints in a range of beautiful blues. Entitled Shallow Iridescence, the mural reflects the museum’s priority of ocean health and sustainability.
The artist Patrick Hunter advised, ‘The natural world is our home, it is where we came from, and we should be proud of how we leave it. My objective is to draw people in, with the different ways the artwork appears from different angles. The blue-ringed octopus that is the central image is flaring up with nets in its tentacles. It is showing a warning for the direction we are heading with shark nets and overfishing. I was inspired by the work of Valerie Taylor. I want people of all ages to think about the ocean that surrounds us and be more aware of taking care of it.’ he said. Learn more
Mosman Art Gallery
Mosman Art Gallery uses PERMACRYLIK scenic paints to decorate the gallery walls for many exhibitions.
Buy paint direct & save
Order COLORMAKER paints and coatings online and have them delivered to your door or use our Click & Collect service and pick up your order from Colormaker in Brookvale.
– COLORMAKER eco-friendly interior & exterior low-VOC house paints
– COLORMAKER durable paving paints for garage floors, patios, laundries & workshops
– ACRYLMERIC® construction coatings including Concrete Sealers, Epoxacote floor coating & Texacote textured exterior coatings
– ACRYLMERIC® System membranes including WeatherTuff exterior protective membrane, Sportscote non-slip, trafficable membrane, Wet Area Membrane & WB Epoxy Primer Membrane for preventing seepage penetration through walls and floors
– LUXAPOOL® swimming pool paints for pool interiors and pool surrounds
–PERMACRYLIK® scenic paints for movie and theatre set decoration, murals and more
–PERMASET® eco-friendly screen printing inks for printing t-shirts, merchandise, yardage and posters
Phone your order through on 02-9939 7977 and collect from Colormaker Paint Shop.
BLOCK winner renovates home using Colormaker Paints
Designer and Winner of THE BLOCK, Shannon Vos, renovated his home in Lilli Pilli Sydney using Colormaker Interior and Exterior House Paints, ACRYLMERIC® Membranes and LUXAPOOL® Epoxy Swimming Pool Paints. The Pool Haus is centred around a unique mural swimming pool painted with LUXAPOOL Epoxy pool paints. Check out Shannon’s video Top 5 Tips to Transform the Exterior of Your Home…
Byron Bay development decorated with Colormaker eco-friendly paints
Colormaker partnered with The Designory, a multi-disciplinary Sydney design studio, to provide our sustainable Colormaker interior and exterior house paints and LUXAPOOL® swimming pool paints for The Vela Properties in Byron Bay.
Archibald Prize winning artist Blak Douglas
First Nations artist, Blak Douglas, was the winner of the 2022 Archibald Prize with his portrait Moby Dickens. “When I began painting, I consciously chose water-based paints as I felt them to be the least harmful to the environment. I recall randomly stumbling upon the incredible colour range of PERMACRYLIK® at an inner city paint shop for the first time. Gobsmacked by the pigments, what allured me most was the strength of the ochre based range which ideally suited me as a First Nations artist.” he said.
The How Ridiculous YouTube team splatter paints with PERMASET® Ink!
The How Ridiculous YouTube team from Perth, decorated hundreds of T-shirts, hats and dinosaur toys by smashing, swatting and bombarding them with PERMASET AQUA eco-friendly inks using a giant hammer, a huge fly swatter and a gigantic wrecking ball. Check out this awesome video…
