• David Klinko was born in 1950 in Ontario, Canada.
• Formal art training from Dundas Valley School of Art 1976, Ontario College of Art 1978 and Emily Carr College of Art 1988
• Worked for a number of established Toronto artists, Gerry Zeldin, Therese Bolliger and Bart Uchida
• Partcipated in group shows Hamilton and Burlington Art Galleries.
• One man shows Manfred Gallery, Dundas, Ontario, 1978.
• Le Papillon Restaurant 1980.
• Petley Jones Gallery Vancouver 1989
• 6 years building miniature sets for toy commercials up to 1992
• Living in the Turks and Caicos Islands since 1993.

Having been a musician most of his life, David has come to approach all styles of music with an open jazz like attitude. As a result, he approaches painting in a similar way. He drops in the groove, experiments, pushes limits at times, flies till he can't. Sometimes ideas fuel the groove, othertimes he improvises until an image or idea appears, then he rides ,with it. Only until he exhausts this method will he then go back and study what he's done in order to fix the piece or, in the rare case, leave it alone.