Dave was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of his life. He is a retired attorney who has two degrees in psychology. Dave has practiced law, been vice president of a bank, served in the Canadian military, fought forest fires, delivered mail, worked underground as a miner, and, as lab assistant in a memory study, trained goldfish. Besides artmaking, Dave enjoys kayaking, nature photography, chess and playing the great Highland bagpipe.