The "Happy Accident" That Launched a Brand 

We're a family-owned brand from New Zealand. We started at our own kitchen table, with a love of painting and a determination to make better tools for patient painters since 2014.

We started at our own kitchen table, with a love of painting and a determination to make better tools.

Our first brush set, Maestro Series XV, went on sale on Amazon in December 2014. Minute Series XII followed in 2016, then the Fine Tip Series IV in August 2018: four brushes of one size, so a spare of your go-to size is on the desk when one is drying. In November 2020 the Fine Tip 000 was #1 in its Amazon category (Hobby Tool Painting Tools), and Fine Tip is still our most-reviewed range. In April 2022 we launched WetNDri, a 3-in-1 wet palette of our own design.

Painters noticed, and so did the factories: Maestro, Minute, Fine Tip and WetNDri have all been widely copied. Factories can copy a tray or a handle; they can't copy the family behind them.

Everything we make has one job: to help you spend your attention on the painting, not the tool. Brushes that place a fine point where you look, handles that stay put on the desk, and a palette that keeps tomorrow's mix ready.

When you write to us, a member of the family answers. We'll explain the why, and usually add a tip you didn't ask for. Everything we make comes with a limited lifetime warranty against defects in workmanship.

Thank you for painting with us. Happy painting.