David Silverberg was born in Montreal in 1936. Both his parents moved to Canada from Poland. As a youth, he took art classes with Arthur Lismer and won an art scholarship. After attending McGill University, Silverberg went to Paris, where he studied from 1957 to 1959. He’s best known for his delicate and detailed coloured engravings reviving the classic 'burin' technique. His recurring images including lovers and animals, women and birds, dancers and butterflies, music and exotic locations. He has visited almost 80 countries, including China, where he was invited by the government in 1991 and 1992 to travel, teach, and exhibit. Throughout his career, Silverberg has also taught printmaking at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (1963 - 1995), leaving to become an artist-in-residence at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. In 1994, Silverberg was appointed a member of the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA). Earlier, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, England. His work is represented in over 25 Public, Government and Corporate collections. He has had over 200 solo shows in Canada, the United States, and Internationally. His work has been featured in group exhibitions with many contemporary artists including: Salvador Dali, Miro, Marini, Vasarely, Calder, Ben Shahn, Yoshida, Zorach, Picasso, Hayter, Braque, Zadkine, Epstein, Baskin, Kollwitz, and Marc Chagall.

The African Hawk-Eagle is a medium-sized, boldly-patterned, dark-and-white bird. In flight, the underwing is brown and white with a thick black hind edge, and the tail is mostly pale gray with a thick dark bar at the end; these combine to give it a unique plumage pattern The bird is fairly common throughout sub-Saharan and central Africa. It prefers semi-arid range-lands, savanna, and forest areas. For the most part, it hunts other birds.