The Thousands

Paul Davies’ works are as much about the built environment as the natural. His use of colour and the third dimension are unlike anything I’ve ever seen pushed across a canvas before. He accurately notes his early influences as Jeffrey Smart, the photography of Ansel Adams, and an after-school art teacher and landscape artist Kel Connell (who first suggested omitting the human form as a subject). Combine those with exposure to street artists and graffiti writers, through his studio space at China Heights, and a perfect process involving photography, stencilling and acrylic painting is established. It’s hard to explain how initially alien but eventually familiar, like home, Davies’ works are. You’ll have to goggle them yourself.