David Newell lives in O'Brien, Oregon. He is an artist and wood carver, specializing in necklaces,animal and floral figures, and ornamental garden boxes. Mytho-poetic themes and imagery are a primary focus of his work. He spends his extra time playing banjo, making one-string puppets (like Murphy the Leprechaun Lawyer), and throwing spears with an atlatl on the spear golf course he built. He reconstructs the banjos, and makes the one-string puppets and atlatls himself.