Freelance cartoons and illustrations for newspapers and magazines. Oliver Preston’s work has been published in: Arable Farming Magazine, The Beano, The Daily Express, The Dandy, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, The Field, Le Figaro, FT magazines, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Harpers & Queen, Inside Track Magazine, Marie France, Owner magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday People, Punch magazine, The Spectator, Square Meal, The Times City Diary, and Woman Magazine.

Caricatures, corporate gifts and ‘Deal toys’. Cartoons and caricatures to celebrate the closing of deals, leaving presents, client entertainment days, illustrations for in-house research , seminars and corporate invitations. Clients have included: Bank of Scotland, British Phonographic Industry, BZW, Barclays Bank, Cazenove & Co., Deutsche Morgan Grenfell , Diageo, ING Baring, The King Edward V11 Hospital for Officers, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Moet Hennessy, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Sony Music (UK), Texas Pacific Group, UBS Phillips & Drew, and Zeneca.

Cartoons and illustrations to accompany Press Releases, to convey a message using humour, as used by: Allied Irish Bank, American Express Travel, Ariel, Barclays Bank PLC, Barclays Life, The Countryside Alliance, Daz, Direct Line, Disaronno Amaretto, Fairy Liquid, Janssen Cilag, Kelloggs Cornflakes, Kelloggs Nutrigrain bars, Midland Bank, Mars Bars, Motorola, Powergen, PPP Healthcare, Tesco and The Wine and Spirits Association.

Corporate and PR work. Many PR and communication companies have used Oliver Preston’s cartoons. They include: Band & Brown, BMA Communications, Brunswick, Camargue, Citigate Dewe Rogerson, Clarke & Taylor, College Hill, Communications Plus, Countrywide Porter Novelli, Edelman, Focus PR, GCI Group, GCI Jane Howard, Generation Associates, Harrison Cowley, HDPR, Hexagon Communications, Hill & Knowlton, Lion’s Den, Ludgate, Luther Pendragon, Manning Selvage & Lee, Marbles, OCC, Pettifor Morrow, Ruder Finn, Sector PR, Shire Hall,Tulchan, Wardour Communications and WPR.

Personalised christmas cards, change of address cards and invitations have been commissioned by: ABN Amro, Alexander Mann, Asia Equity, The British Dental Foundation, Brora, BZW, Cater Allen Bank, Chance Entertainment, Chivers Hartley, Claridge’s,Classic Management, Clegg Kennedy Drew, The Carphone Warehouse, Citigate Dewe Rogerson, The Corporate Advisory Partnership, The Countryside Alliance, David Sheppard & Partners, DBM, Edelman, Fait Accomplis, The Field Magazine, Foreign & Colonial Venture Capital, Guiness Mahon Private Banking, Hanover Fox, Lehman Brothers, Lawford & Co., Moet Hennessy, Moscow Narodny Bank, Mozzarella.com, Natwest Markets, Penrose Forbes, Project Art, Radio Lynx, The Royal Gurkha Rifles, The Savoy Hotel Group, Salomon Brothers Emerging markets, Taylor Woodrow , Taylor St Aubyn Insurance, Western & Oriental, and The Wren Press.

Cartoon illustrations add life to websites, powerpoint presentations and corporate videotapes. Clients in this expanding area include: Austin Reed, Bibendum Wine, College Hill, Instlang, Metamorph, Novartis, Sports Adviser and Zeneca.

Cartoons add humour and illustrations to research documents, internal or client newsletters , and corporate literature as used by: Astra Pharmaceuticals, Bibendum Wine, Cater Allen Bank, CGU, Chambers & Partners, Charles Schwab, The Harbour Club Magazine, Hays Accountancy Personnel, Lucas, Marbles, Michelin, Motorola, Radio Lynx, Schering Healthcare and Vauxhall motors.

Advertising, competitions, posters and murals. Beanfeast, Bicester Village, Boots the Chemist, Bonhams, The Cat Protection League,Holiday Inn, Marmite, Petsmart , John Preston (Paris) and Taylor St Aubyn.

Cartoons for shops, bars, restaurants, hotels and offices. Oliver Preston’s cartoons are hung in: Annabel’ s, The Au Bar in New York, Berry Bros. and Rudd, Cazenove & Co., Como Lario, Gertrudes Restaurant ( New York), Hunters of Brora, The King Edward VII Hospital, Pedigree Petfoods and Zianis

Oliver Preston left Lehman Brothers to become a full-time cartoonist in 1996 and uses his sales and marketing experience to add value to client's corporate requirements. He was appointed the youngest Trustee of The Cartoon Art Trust in 1992, and founded and devised the first Cartoon Art Trust Awards held 14/11/95 at The Royal Society of Arts, for political, gag, pocket, advertising, strip cartoons and caricatures, and which have since been held annually at The Royal Institution, and in 2001 at Bloomberg.

In February 1999, Oliver Preston held a one man show at The Fine Art Society in Bond Street. He has also been exhibited at The Addison Ross Gallery in 1990 and David Austin’s Gallery in 1996, and prior to this he won The Gunther Graphics Prize for Art in 1977, 1978 and 1980, and designed sets for plays including, Peer Gynt, Guys and Dolls and The Odd Couple.

He uses a dip pen with indian ink for his drawings, a combination of inks and designers gouache for colouring, and monochrome washes. In 1995 he attended the Heatherly School of Art for evening tuition, but is otherwise self taught. He visits London frequently, but is based at his studio outside Tetbury, Gloucestershire. His cartoons are derived from contemporary observations, and he is influenced by HM Bateman, Pont and Charles Addams. He was nominated in the 1998 CAT awards in the Advertising category.