Dave was born and raised in the Pacific NW where the natural beauty has a major influence on his style and form. Dave studied with James Lee Hanson who introduced him to the bronze foundry. Working with clay, making molds and then pouring bronze led him to a new understanding of achieving form. Don Wilson became an instructor at PSU and introduced Dave to stone carving and he has been carving mantel to monumental sculpture ever since. Some stones measure fourteen feet high and weigh 5,500 pounds! Researching the Egyptian and Inca cultures and tapping into their rich source of information has fueled his imagination to carve the hard stones. He has traveled to Carnac France, Stonehenge England, Machu Picchu Peru, East Africa and visited the monasteries in Lhasa Tibet to explore and research many of the standing stones left there.