Preston, David George, 1947-

David Preston is a renowned Australian artist, best recognised for his delicately detailed linocuts and beautiful landscape and flower paintings in oil. Born in 1948 in Sydney Australia, David graduated from the National Art School in 1971, and in 1978 established Etchers Press in Brett Whitely's Reiby Place Studio in Sydney.

Roy Davies began wood engraving in 1921 and his first published print, Cattleman's Hut was executed in 1922. At that time, Lionel Lindsay was also beginning to work in the wood engraving technique, and through the illustrator David Barker, Lindsay contacted Davies and invited him to his studio. In 1923 Davies exhibited 12 wood engravings at Tyrrell's Limited, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, in an Exhibition of Woodcuts; in the same year, two wood engravings were reproduced in Art in Australia. The artist exhibited regularly with the Society of Artists and held two one-man exhibitions in Sydney. In 1926 he exhibited with the Sydney Art Salon.

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