David Hettinger was born in Aurora, Illinois in 1946. He began drawing at the age of eight and painting oil at the age of thirteen. By the time he entered The American Academy of Art in Chicago, he began to study under Joseph Van Broucke. After graduating from college he continued his studies in atelier of David Leffel in New York, then later in that of Richard Schmid.
        The artist has won both regional and national awards from the Oil Painters of America, and he has been featured many times in the arts media since the 1980's, most recently in the Artist magazine, December 2003.
        Hettinger's interiors are impressionistic but often the details become the central element of the composition. "I'm interested in delineating the little objects," he says, "the stacks of books, whatever makes a home."
        Clearly, his work strikes a resonant chord with the public, which has been collecting his paintings for nearly forty years.