Derek Maynard Davis (24 February 1926 – 3 September 2008) was an English artist, working in the media of painting and pottery.

[3] An eye operation in 1994 left him unable to look through the hole in the pottery kiln, and after this he started focusing on painting instead.

[1] Davis's work is characteristic for breaking with the functionalistic style of Bernard Leach, which was prevalent in the post-war years.

[1] His pottery was featured at several separate exhibitions, and he had commissions from the Barbican Centre and the British embassies in Brasília, Rome, Warsaw, and Riyadh.

Davis met his wife Ruth Lambert in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, where he spent some time in a sanatorium after college, suffering from tuberculosis.