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.

PERMASET® Eco-friendly Inks for Every Daughter Matters, Nepal

Every Daughter Matters is an Australian-based anti-human trafficking NGO that works in Nepal to intercept and rescue Nepali girls at risk of trafficking, providing them with education, support, and safe homes, partnering with Aashish Social Services Nepal. 

Teaming up with the How Ridiculous You Tube team, Colormaker Industries was delighted to provide our PERMASET® eco-friendly screen printing inks to the girls for screen printing these beautiful heart hoodies to raise money for the resources they need to build a better life.

Murals by Brookvale Art District painted with PERMACRYLIK+ Lightfast paints

BAD Artists Lara Allport, Patrick Hunter and Miguel Gonzales had a wonderful time painting their beach mural on the Bondi Art Wall recently.  They used PERMACRYLIK+ Lightfast paints, sustainably made here in Brookvale using 100% renewable energy.

PERMACRYLIK+^® Light Fast products are low VOC, UV resistant, low sheen, water-based acrylic paints designed for use in architectural, commercial, sign and scenic decoration, including indoor and outdoor murals and art installations. The range features vibrant colours that offer long life under the harsh Australian sun, and special ingredients that provide long lasting resistance to mould and fungus attack, ensuring excellent durability.

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 why Colormaker house paints are so sustainable

Pool Paint Colour Trends for 2024

Choosing a paint colour for your swimming pool can be a daunting exercise, so Colormaker has prepared an article to assist you with your pool colour decisions. This report outlines the latest 2024 pool paint colour trends and some other important considerations when making your pool paint colour selection.  Read the report

ACRYLMERIC® Sportscote PFR colour range popular for school sports courts

Learn more about choosing ACRYLMERIC Sportscote PFR colours here.

Summer paint colour trends for home interiors and exteriors

Check out the Spring/Summer paint colour trends and Colormaker Industries’ range of sustainable, eco-friendly paints. At Colormaker we’re all about colour.  We offer paints in a huge array of tints, tones and shades, plus we have the latest software enabling us to match any colour you require across most of our paint range. Colormaker house paints are also low-VOC, and sustainably Australian made using 100 % renewable energy.  If you’re looking for some interior and exterior paint colour inspiration, find the latest Spring/Summer paint colour trends here

How to paint your old tiled roof in a COLORBOND® colour

Many of the older-style Californian bungalow homes, built between 1925-1939 on the Northern Beaches feature terracotta roof tiles. Did you know that you can upgrade and restore your old roof (be it terracotta, concrete tile or even metal) by painting it with ACRYLMERIC® WeatherTuff exterior elastomeric coating?   Learn how here

Northern Beaches Council Net Zero Expo

In June 2024, 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

Colormaker’s Sustainability Celebration on Friday 5th April, 2024 marked the official launch of the the ReVolve® battery – which is world-first technology, 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 760 tonnes of GHG emissions.

Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize

Colormaker was the proud foundation sponsor of the 2024 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize.  Artists were 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.  Learn more

Supporting Mosman Art Prize 2024

Colormaker was proud to support the 2024 Mosman Art Prize, one of the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prizes in Australia with an acquisitive prize of $70,000. Winners and finalists were exhibited from 10th August – 6th October at Mosman Art Gallery.  Learn more

Colormaker received Community Recognition Statement

Colormaker Industries was presented with a Community Recognition Statement by James Griffin, 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: Winner of three Sustainability Awards

Colormaker was the proud recipianet of three sustainability awards in 2023.

• 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.

  

• 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.

Colormaker’s 65 Year Celebration

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

Exciting mural at Maritime Museum by Brookvale artist Ink Hunter

The Australian National Maritime Museum unveiled a commissioned mural in August ’23, 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

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.

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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.

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The How Ridiculous YouTube team splatter paints with PERMASET® Inks!

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…