THE COLOUR LAB
Welcome to the Colour Lab where we
have the largest range of pigments and
colourants (+ special effect materials) in the world! If you love colour we have a interactive style factory / shop where
you can develop your own colours for
your exact needs or you can use our
Lucid Colour pigments to mix + swatch
your own unique handmade colours at
the customer work bench area in the Lab.
We have intermediates and carriers for
all pigments and qualifications to product
formulation and development for every
industry using pigments, colour & effects.
We can colour eco plastics and any resin or make colour into... or stick to anything!
OUR HISTORY...
As children we all loved colour and paint,
and my colour addiction from this time has continued to find every single colour.
It all started when moving to Sydney
at 6 with my parents from Poland and
Sicily, they were mechanics and they
started an engine repair shop in 'The
Sydney'. I was the mechanics hand,
hand me a 9/16th, hand me that. When
I was not in 'mechanic training' I would break open the half dead car batteries at the garage. This was more fun and more
interesting, and just like the board game 'operation' except trying to remove the lead plates out of the acid with pliers without burning your hands (not the red nose and buzzer in 'operation'). My
childhood obsession started, mixing acid
with copper wire, found coins or chrome badges from junk cars in old pickle jars creating co-ordinate metal complexes and amazing coloured chemical crystals.
With a great collection of colours jars, I turned the out dated 'outback dunny' at the garage into a miniature Colour Lab!
These experiments went on and led to
making explosives from the same acid
and metals as a 'free radical' teenager. Colour and paint was boring now and bangs and booms were much more fun!
After university I was employed at Australian Federal Police (AFP) bomb squad, where my technical knowledge was innovative, but my love of colour
chemistry was much more rewarding.
I returned back to reacting chemicals
into colourful pigments again, based in
New York for the emerging artists that
were bringing me a jar full of pennies to
convert to copper blue pigments. I also
worked directly with many world renown artists making custom colour pigments.
I returned back to Sydney to continue on
making very rare and unique colours for
artists, crafters, makers, formulators and
many other industries. I still continue complex chemical reactions to feed my
'dedication and dangerous discovery' for colours and follow the childhood dream to find every possible colour in the world.
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The Colour Lab door is always open
to all colour lovers, artists, makers, or
anyone that feels a bit bored or blue...
Come in and mix up a batch of paint,
ink, eye shadow or anything of colour
you need. Jar it up and take it with you to
use in your space, studio or workshop.
Make an appointment below to visit us at
the Colour Lab to make your very own
unique colour palette or come in just for
a cup of tea/coffee, chat about pigments,
your project ideas, or how we can help you with colour and technical questions.
LOVE COLOUR?
