Visual Artist

Paul Edward Davies is a painter, printmaker and photographer, based in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, near Madrid, in Spain.

His work centres on the natural world, often probing the border between the figurative and abstraction. Poetry is another source of inspiration, and he has created series of prints and paintings inspired by poets including William Wordsworth (the Intimations series), Dylan Thomas (Sea Chains), and St John of the Cross (Noche Oscura), as well as Shakespeare (The Tempest).

He is a student of Zen and his work is informed by Buddhist ideas, themes, and imagery. In recent years, the monotype – perhaps the form of printmaking closest to painting – has become his preferred medium, which he enjoys for its flexibility and immediacy. The artist’s book is also becoming an important form of expression.

Paul Edward Davies has studied printmaking with Enrique González and María Expósito Santiso and bookbinding with María Luisa Núñez. He has participated in various editions of Escorial Estudios Abiertos and was a founder member of Ruta de Arte, an association of artists of the Sierra de Madrid.

The writer, journalist and art critic Julia Sáez Angulo (vice president of the Madrid Association of Art Critics) describes his work as “refined and, within abstraction, alluding to reality.”

Press Articles

“El Jardin del Artista”, interview, Apuntes de la Sierra, November 2016

Abstracción pictórica”, blog EscorialUp, 15 January 2014

“Abstracciones pictóricas sobre el agua, el mar y las cadenas”, blog La Mirada Actual, 7 July 2013.

Catalogues

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Selected exhibitions

Individual exhibitions

2016:      Wild Garden, monotypes, Casa de Cultura de San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2013:      Aguas: abstractions and expressions, paintings and prints, Casa de Cultura de  San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2009:      Photographs, Café Babel, San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2009:      Still Life, photographs, Librería El Bandido Doblemente Armado, Madrid
2009:      Reflejos, photographs, Galería De Autor, San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2008:      Naturalezas, prints and photographs, Casa de Cultura de San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2005:      Buda y Luna, prints and photographs, Librería Lauviah, San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2004:     Terreno Herido, prints and drawings, Casa de Cultura de San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Group exhibitions

2017:      Colloquio, Galería Antonio de Suñer, Madrid 
2016:      Zona Incontrolable II, Studio de Daniel Merlín, San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2016:      Imagina Escorial, Galería Edurne, El Escorial
2016:      Ventanas al Arte, San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2015:      Monocromos, Galería Edurne, El Escorial
2015:      Zona Incontrolable, Estudio de Daniel Merlín, San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2014:      Ruta de Arte, Casa Museo de Julio Escobar, Los Molinos
2009:     Varios, Variopintos y Varatos, Galería De Autor, San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2006:      Galería Álvaro Sellés, San Lorenzo de El Escorial
2004:      Radical Visions from Bipolar Worlds, ABC No Rio gallery, New York