Paul Davies

Aussie artist Paul Davies ticks all the right boxes. His paintings are original, display great architecture and the colours are amazing. His compositions are so interesting and give a feeling of space and light, while being painterly in parts and a bit rough around the edges.

Here's the blurb from the Tim Olsen Gallery website:

Channelling the bleak panoramic vision of a young David Hockney, Australian artist Paul Davies’s newest series of paintings, on show this month at Sydney's Tim Olsen Gallery are a contemporary lesson in pure aesthetics.

Taking his original spark of inspiration from an Aspen holiday magazine, Davies’s block-coloured, eerily empty paintings are a clear expression of the artist’s obsession with line and form.

With a keen interest in the Bauhaus and late modernist buildings, Davies’s paintings offer a striking synthesis between artistic control and abstraction. Constructed using both stencils and free hand painting, Davies multi-disciplinary approach results in overall flat paintings with an unexpected depth.

With 1970’s low slung Miami-style buildings peering ghoulishly out from amid the Peter Doig-esque trees scattering the foreground of the canvas, Davies invokes a disconcerting sense of nostalgia.

Devoid of life, the paintings are lent a surprising warmth by Davies’s striking colour combinations – Hockney he may not be, but there is no denying that what Davies does, he does remarkably well. WallpaperMagazine, Online 2009

orange staircase

falling water yellow and brown

blue pool and modern home

all images from tim olsen gallery