David Powell was born in Sowega, a military-industrial part of the "New South" where he spent his youth in a suburbia carved from a pecan grove and surrounded by US Navy Nike Hercules installations, a Stategic Air Command US Air Force Base and the largest Marine Corps Supply Center east of the Mississippi River. From age 10 to 14 he attended the Wally Hill Art School, a school run by a transplanted Yankee beret-wearing, goatee-sporting hipster who had a musical duo featuring him on Hammond B-3 and his wife Kelley on drums. From this cradle of safety he went to the University of Georgia where he received a BFA in Drawing and Painting. After graduating he lived in London and Ibiza, showing at the Sigi Krauss Gallery, in both group exhibitions and a solo show. Returning to the states he formed Wonder Graphics in Athens, Georgia, and did design work for the recording industry. He now resides in rural VT where he spends a lot of time with paper, scissors and glue.