About me

I grew up by the sea. Cornwall was always home — the coast, the light, the water. It shaped how I see things before I ever picked up a pencil.

My father was a technical illustrator and a keen painter. Growing up around that — the precision, the observation, the discipline of putting what you actually see onto a page — left its mark. I didn't realise how much until much later.

I went to Falmouth to study art and design, then on to Staffordshire University to study multidisciplinary design. The next 25 years were spent in the creative industries — running my own businesses, working for others, always in design. It's the only world I've ever worked in.

In 2020, my family and I made the decision to move back to Cornwall. We'd been holidaying nearby and knew it was where we wanted to be. We settled in Tywardreath, just outside Par — and Fowey, one of the most beautiful working harbours on the south coast, is less than a mile away.

That's where I first saw the Fowey River Dinghies.

I have no sailing background. But I've always been drawn to the sea, and when I started looking closely at these boats — really looking, at the structure of the sails, the geometry, the tension lines, the way the form behaves under load — I saw something worth translating. Not the romance of sailing. The logic of it.

That process of translation is what The Loft Works is built on. Taking something that exists in the world, studying it until you understand its structure, then reducing it into something graphic, considered, and precise. Stripping away the decorative until only the essential remains.

I started selling the work because I genuinely wanted to share it. Not to archive it. The enthusiasm I feel when an observation becomes a composition — I want that to end up on someone's wall, in a space they care about.

That's what this is.

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