My modern nautical artworks are rooted in observation, not imagination. Working from real sail forms, I've distilled structure, geometry and colour into graphic compositions designed for contemporary spaces. These are pieces made to live quietly within an interior — considered, balanced and intentionally minimal.

  • Observation Over Imagination

    Each piece begins with time spent studying real working sails — their seams, curves, tension lines and wear. Rather than inventing forms, I work from what’s physically present, using observation to understand how sail structures behave before reducing them into graphic compositions.

  • Reduction Into Form

    Complex shapes and layered materials are stripped back to essential structure, proportion and rhythm. This process of reduction creates clarity and balance, allowing the work to retain a strong graphic presence without becoming decorative or illustrative.

  • Designed for Considered Spaces

    The finished works are intended to sit within contemporary interiors — calm, architectural pieces that support a space rather than compete with it. They are designed to reward closer looking, revealing detail and structure over time.

Selected for the St Ives Society of Artists Spring Open 2026.

No.14 from The Loft Works Series 1 has been accepted into the St Ives Society of Artists Spring Open 2026 — on my first submission.

The work is on show at the Mariners Gallery, located in the former Mariners Church, Norway Square, St Ives, Cornwall. The exhibition runs from 1st May to 19th June and showcases a mix of paintings, prints, and sculptures from emerging and professional artists.

If you're in St Ives, go and see it.

Exhibition details: Mariners Gallery, Norway Square, St Ives, Cornwall 1st May — 19th June 2026 Monday — Saturday, 10am — 5pm Free entry

View No.14 — The Loft Works Series 1

About Scott Latimer

I'm Scott Latimer — a graphic artist and designer based in Cornwall, with over 25 years working in the design industry.

My practice is built on observation. I look closely at everyday structures, forms, and materials — things most people walk past — and work to understand what's structurally happening before I touch any tools. Only then do I start reducing: stripping away mood, texture, and decoration until what's left is geometry, proportion, and colour.

The Loft Works came out of time spent around the water in Cornwall. I became interested in working sails — not as romantic objects, but as functional structures. The seams, the tension lines, the way a sail behaves under load. There's a logic to all of it, and that logic is what I'm trying to isolate and give visual weight to.

Series 1 focuses on the mainsails of the Fowey River Dinghies — 17 two-colour works that reduce each sail to its essential geometry. They're made with digital tools, which suits the work: precise, flat, undecorated.

Series 2 is in development. It takes the same process into a different territory — beyond the wall, into objects and surfaces.

If you'd like to follow the work as it develops, you can find me on Instagram or join the mailing list below.

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The Loft Works: Series 2 — A New Chapter

Series 1 reduced the mainsail to its essential geometry.

Series 2 lets the spinnaker fill with air.

Where Series 1 was flat — graphic, precise, designed for the wall — Series 2 takes the same process into three dimensions. A new sail form. A new kind of object. The same two-colour graphic language, translated from a surface into a sculptural form you can hold.

The Series 2 statement piece is a vase — its form drawn directly from the billowing geometry of a spinnaker sail under wind. It's taking shape now.

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The Loft Works: Series 1

Series 1 is a collection of 17 limited-edition two-colour works inspired by the mainsails of the Fowey River Dinghies. Each piece is built from direct observation — studying real sail forms, their geometry, tension lines and structure — then reduced into clean graphic compositions.

Created entirely with digital tools, the works have a precision and flatness unique to the medium. Every piece in the edition is individually signed and numbered.

Available in two formats:

Signed Fine Art Prints — from £275 Individually signed and numbered. Printed on archival fine art paper. Ships from Cornwall.

Digital Downloads — £95 The same artwork as a high-resolution file. Print locally, frame to your preference, hang anywhere in the world.

Scott's work is absolutely stunning on our walls. We have three pieces from The Loft Works Series 1 — No.17, the large format composite, hangs above our front desk and stops customers in their tracks the moment they walk in. No.14 and No.16 complete the collection in the gallery. The graphic precision and the quality of the print is exceptional. We're delighted to be stocking The Loft Works at The Old Bank Gallery, Fowey.

— The Old Bank Gallery, Fowey, Cornwall

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Every piece in Series 1 is available as a high-resolution digital download for £95 — the same artwork, delivered as a file you can print locally, frame to your own spec, and hang anywhere in the world. No shipping costs. No waiting.

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