John Preston

Education,1984, BFA, Maharishi International University.

Group Exhibitions:

1987,Showcase of Iowa Artists, Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, Iowa.

1990 Prairie Summer, Haydon Gallery,Lincoln, Nebraska

1993, Grant Wood, His Regionalist Vision Realized, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque,Iowa.

One of the Midwest’s major landscape painters, John Preston continues to find new and appealing scenes within one county in Iowa. His popular landscapes capture the features of fields, tree islands, fence rows, and ribbons of gravel curving over gently rolling prairie, plus fleeting impressions of light and shade. Although his landscapes are quintessential Iowa, Preston came from Maryland to study in Fairfield, Iowa where he earned his BFA in 1984 at Maharishi International University. Painting full time, Preston has participated in many solo and group shows, and his works hang in a wide range of corporate collections, including those of Equitable of Iowa, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Hubbell Realty, Iowa State Bank, Amoco Oil, and the Hotel Pattee.

John Preston attracts the admiration of contemporary artists and collectors because of his exceptional ability to create appealing images from both direct observation and memory.