Painter, potter and teacher, educated in Edinburgh, where he studied ceramics and glass design, 1966–70, at the College of Art, with a postgraduate scholarship in ceramics and a travelling scholarship to Italy, 1970–71. Davies taught part-time at Moray House College of Education, 1971–2 and lectured in ceramics at Glasgow School of Art, 1973–86, then becoming a full-time potter and painter. His pots, stoneware and porcelain, were functional, decorative and exuberant in style; his gouache and acrylic paintings used the shape, pattern and colour of landscape almost to abstraction. Davies was a regular solo exhibitor, later shows including Macaulay Gallery in Stenton and Castlegate House, Cockermouth, both 1994, and The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 1996.