Beam Paints is the result of a multigenerational love of pigment, paint, colour, and innovation. Artists Carl Beam and Ann Beam founded the company, and taught their children how to harvest hematite pigment in the LaCloche mountain range near their home in M'Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island.

Beam Paints is 100% Anishnaabe Kwe owned, and operates––as it always has––on the home reserve of M’Chigeeng First Nation, where the company continues to grow, employing paintmakers and woodworkers, men and women from intersecting Indigenous communities, including M’Chigeeng, Sagamok and Wikwemikong.
 
Paintstones are lightfast pigments, tree sap, and gum Arabic. Maintaining a commitment to plastic-free product creation and business practices, each paintstone is wrapped in beeswaxed cotton with paper labels identifying the color name.
 
Each paintstone is equivalent to a halfpan, and they measure 7/8" in diameter including the wrapper, or, 5/8" in diameter when measuring the paint only.