EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 13 © 2015 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

37 By the late 1940s, Scott was around seventy years old and, as Matthews told me, he “was living by himself in a flat in Montpelier Road, in Brighton; his wife was living elsewhere in a caravan”. A curious situation by any standards! But, as Matthews said: “Sep, on his own, was now free to do as much drawing and painting as he liked”. Thanks to this meeting, Sep Scott was to leave Poster Art far behind him and start a whole new career in the last decade of his life. Septimus Edwin Scott was born in Sunderland on 19 March 1879 and studied at the Royal College of Art in London. He became a noted painter of landscapes and portraiture and, as early as 1903, was exhibiting at the Royal Academy. Scott was elected ARBA (Associate of the Royal Society of British Artists) in 1919, ROI (Royal Institute of Oil Painters) in 1920 and RI (Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours) in 1927. He began work as a commercial artist at the studios of Spottiswoode & Co., the first printers to start a modern commercial studio. Less than a year later, he left for W. H. Smith’s studio, where they were, according to the Poster magazine,