MARTIN DAVIES

Martin is a contemporary artist currently living on the Central Coast and has been making art since his early twenties. Mostly a self-taught painter his strong design sensibilities were honed as an Architecture graduate from the UNSW. Primarily a figurative abstract artist, his technique has shifted over time as his skill and confidence as a painter developed. His early work completed whilst living in Vancouver, Canada during his thirties is a more playfully expressive, primitive style, which draws on early 20th century art movements such as cubism and was influenced by the wild Pacific Northwest environment sitting right at Vancouver’s doorstep. His recent paintings have evolved in a more formalist sense, juxtaposing figurative and abstract elements within musical compositions that reflect the artist’s own emerging pop realist style.