Born in the beautiful county of Devon England, where much of his passion and inspiration for his drawings and paintings begin, his father who was a very good artist in his own right sold several paintings within the USA during the 1950's, but sadly he died aged just 35 before David realized his own desire and ability to be able to sketch and paint, it was not until he was around the age of thirteen that he found this first indication that he had an ability to be an artist, an art teacher at that time gave them a still life to sketch and paint, and he was chosen as a potential candidate to sit the "GCE" O level art examination, she then went on and reduced the students she had selected down to five, of which he was one, and to his surprise and delight passed.

  Art was then put aside until he joined the RAF, where in his spare time he began to paint in oils,  exhibiting and selling to many service personnel and civilians around the areas he was stationed, but his career in the RAF came to premature end when he sustained a chronic back injury, which needed numerous surgery procedures, unfortunatly these procedures only added to the injury and left him with arachnoiditis and being partialy disabled.  
                 From the RAF he went to work for the MOD, but was still plagued  with further surgery procedures, and further deterioration.