Dennis Arthur Lattimer (1946 â 1 July 2025) was a New Zealand mural artist and illustrator. Active during the 1990s through to the mid-2010s, he completed more than 30 permanent outdoor murals, most notably the series that gave the Taranaki town of à Âpunake its reputation as "Mural Town of the West".
Lattimer trained as a commercial signwriter before turning to large-scale mural work in the late 1990s.
In 1998, Lattimer completed Life Savers, a 35 à8 m depiction of Opunake's surf-lifesaving culture painted on concrete block in the central business district. Between 1998 and 2002, he produced the ten-panel Reflections of à Âpunake cycle, charting à Âpunake's history from 1900 to 2000. His 2012 mural, Pharmacies Thru the Ages, portrays à Âpunake's three long-serving chemists and was unveiled on Tasman Street after 19 working days of painting. In the same year, Lattimer was commissioned by the Paihia Phantom Placemakers to create a jigsaw-style mural narrating the history of Paihia, Bay of Islands.
The Paihia project and the à Âpunake pharmacy mural jointly earned Lattimer the Resene Mural Masterpieces national award for best community mural in 2012.
Lattimer died at his home in Coopers Beach, on 1 July 2025, at the age of 79.