Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

 

“Sydney based artist Paul Davies is building a reputation with a new take on landscape painting; glorious panoramas of modernist houses in bold washes of colour. Inspired by artists like Richard Hamilton and David Hockney, Davies’ take on 1970s modernism has resulted in a world of houses that we feel a bit put out don’t exist in reality – they’d make perfect feature material for this magazine.”
Reproduced - Urbis, Issue 39, 2007 p. 94

 

Largely working with Australian and international modernist architectural facades and interiors, Paul Davies work features the use of delicate hand-cut paper stencils, that provide a perspective, content and detail within a painterly abstract environment. These stencils are created using both Davies’ own and researched photographs.  

The buildings in Davies paintings remain vacant of people to reinforce the original idea of its architect, allowing the viewer to experience an “open plan living” ideal. Davies work looks at both the restored and forgotten modernist buildings in a way relevant to today rather than isolating them in their time. In creating this unique style of landscape painting, Paul Davies sights inspiration from some of the world's greatest living artists such as Gerhard Richter, David Hockney and Peter Doig.

Davies' work appears in private and corporate collections both here and overseas and has been commissioned to create works for a diverse range of companies including; Historic Houses Trust, Stockland and BYL Companies Philadelphia. Recent publications include Art & Australia, Art World, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Belle, Wish, Inside Out, Urbis, and Yen magazine as part of the China Heights Collective.