There’s something a little spooky about a Paul Davies painting. Using vivid block colours and hand-cut stencils, he paints the kind of sleep space-age houses beloved of Palm Springs millionaires: floating concrete slabs, hectares of glass, kidney shaped swimming pools. Curtains waft invitingly around sliding doors. Palm trees reach for the sky. You can almost hear the tinkle of ice in a highball glass.

But there is no one home. The houses are dark and empty. With no one to swim in them, the pools are mirrors. The skies range from a baleful yellow to an irradiated pink or an ominous black.

The cliche of the artist who thrives on solitude doesn't apply to Paul Davies. This Sydneysider, fast gaining recognition for his paintings of modernist houses, shares his studio warehouse with fashion designers and art directors and thrives on the buzz of its inner-city location.

Paul Davies - Wallpaper online 2009

Paul Davies - GQ Australia April 2012

Paul Davies - Black Magazine #10 2009

Paul Davies - W Magazine online May 2011

Paul Davies - Art Almanac Feb 2012