Daniel Quall King was born in 1938 and grew up in Arkansas, USA.  His artistic sensibility was formed early in life by an appreciation of two complementary worlds, the Ouachita forests and the unfolding possibilities of the architecture of the mid-20^th century. He trained as a sculptor and industrial designer at the then Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie-Mellon University) from 1955 to 1959 (BFA Hons) and 1961-1962 (MFA), and received the Porter Prize for Sculpture, and later, a Heinz Graduate Scholarship.  He has lived in England since 1965.