David Fallows was born in Oldham, Manchester in 1948. His family moved to the Wirral in 1958 and he attended Park High School, Birkenhead for a time, where he was trained in oil painting by the then head art teacher at the school, and also attended Saturday art classes at the Birkenhead School of Art. He sold his first painting at the age of 12, and has painted ever since, though not always on a full time basis. Moving north in 1962 his education continued at Forres Academy, leading to an abortive year at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen, then a five year term in air traffic control the Royal Air Force - at this time he painted a series of oil paintings of the aircraft that had been based at RAF Shawbury in the base's history. Leaving the RAF he joined the Highlands and Islands Development Board working in Cartography and Graphic Design before moving into the computer industry when computers in business were something of a novelty. Throughout this time he continued to paint on a semi professional basis, still largely in Oils.

His work is now in private collections in over thirty countries including Australia, New Zealand, Chile, The USA, Canada, Thailand, France, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa and Argentina. A recent attempt to 'count back' through the number of original works sold throughout his lifetime revealed that the figure is now somewhere over one thousand.