Heather Preston's Biography (click "video" for author's art + voiceover)Born and educated in IllinoisGraduate: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with honors and distinctionStudy throughout Europe; world travel; ongoing cultural and spiritual interestsRepresented by leading art galleries in ChicagoNamed one of the outstanding artists of ChicagoTaught adult fine arts classes, exhibited widely, then moved to San Francisco 1970Changed from Fine Art to Illustration careerGraphic Artists Guild: Award of ExcellenceAmerican Institute of Graphic Arts: Certificate of Excellence, Book ShowAmerican Institute of Graphic Arts: Traveling ShowCommunication Arts Advertising Annual: Award of Excellence50 Best BooksBookbuilders West: several Awards of ExcellenceSociety of Typographic Arts: Award of ExcellenceWomen In Design International: Certificate of HonorU.S. Forestry Service, Dept. of Agriculture: 2 "most popular" Smokey Bear posters* 2001 Won California Supreme Court case: Preston vs. CA State Board of Equalization, regarding unjust taxation of royalties, and benefiting all CA artists and publishers Founded Sweet Olive Press®™ to publish "Tree Spirits: Tales and Encounters" bookWon Silver Finalist medal INDIE Book Awards 2010Member: San Francisco Society of Illustrators (SFSI), past board memberMember: Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)Member: IBPA Independent Book Publishers Assn.Illustrated books: (partial list) Tree Spirits: Tales and Encounters (written and illustrated by Heather Preston) Remember The Secret, E. Kubler-Ross, Celestial Arts A Leaf From French Eddy, Harper & Row Rod McKuen's Book of Days, Harper & Row Laughing Down Lonely Canyons, Harper & Row Kinship With All Life, Harper & Row Our Christian Home and Family, Harper & Row Light Style I and II (cookbooks), Harper & Row The Spectrum of Life, Harper & Row The Rainbow Fields, Enchanté Publishing Co. The Klutz Book of Knots, Klutz Press The Future of Being Human, Harper & Row The World of Sacred Stones, Harper & Row All The Women of The Bible, Harper & Row Bioscope, Mayfield Publishing Co. Botany, Hamilton Publishing Co. Many text and science booksCommercial product illustrations: Grape Nuts, Quaker Oats, Del Monte, Amdahl, Tree Top, Fruit and Fiber, Banana Nut Crunch, The Nature Co., Carnation, Clorox, DFS, Dole, Frito-Lay, Pacific Tel. Co., CD covers, etc.etc.