Oliver Preston - Cartoons and Illustrations Caricatures and Unique Gifts


Buy Oliver Preston cartoons from Beverston Press. Click on the window panes for cards, prints or books.

"Oliver Preston's cartoons bring a smile to my face no matter how often I look at them. The themes are as achingly funny as the drawings are exquisite."
Jilly Cooper

"Oliver Preston is a wise man. He gave up bond-dealing to draw cartoons. Anyone can be a bond-dealer but to be a cartoonist you need not only a gift for drawing but wit, a wry knowledge of human nature, and a capacity to pierce prejudices, passions, persiflage, pretension and pomposity. Oliver Preston makes the world a happier place."
Kenneth Baker

Oliver Preston's cartoons are "perfectly observed with visual jokes in every corner."

Country Life

"We all need the talent of Oliver Preston to make us laugh at ourselves from time to time when we are in danger of taking things so frightfully seriously."

The Shooting Gazette

"I have sent on your details to a few friends and colleagues who are avid ski and/or shooting fans. You have some great material and also delivered excellent customer service."

Helen, customer

"I want to commend you on your efficiency. I live in Canada and the books arrived today, April 3. Amazing postal service from England."

Isabel, customer

"We received the two limited edition prints of the 'Caught Short' skier on Monday and managed to get both framed for yesterday. One was handed over at a birthday party last night and much appreciated. So a very big thank you to you all for working hard to get the prints to me so quickly."

John, customer

Newspaper & Magazine
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Another Country Cartoons from The Field Magazine

Published in the Guardian

Published in The Daily Mail

Published in The Field Magazine, Wine Column

Published in The Guardian

Cover, Pacemaker Magazine

Published in The Independent

Published in the Independent

Strip cartoons from Cotswold Life Magazine

Published in BBC Countryfile Magazine

Strip cartoons from The Field Magazine

The cartoons immediately below in the gallery are examples of some of the limited edition prints available from Oliver Preston's online shop at the top of the page. Have a look around the shop -there is always something new - with books, greeting cards and original presents for all the family.

Gallery
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"All my sons are pilots, except Mickey who's just gone into the church"

"We're only keeping it all going for the sake of the children"

"You don't think I asked you to Gstaad for the skiing?"

"If it's that important, why don't you get it yourself?"

"It's the only way of getting the guns out again after lunch "

"It's clues we're fishing for, constable."

"Isn't this the video of how the cat got run over?"

"Isn't that the ghastly couple we met skiing in Meribel?"

"...and then he comes downstairs wearing plus-fours and carrying a gun!"

"Sometimes I think you only married me for my father's grouse moor."

... and Noah seth, "Sod the dodos", and so it came to pass

"... and what's your wife's hobby? "

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"Would you like me to take my feet out of the stirrups? "

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"Incapability O'Brien lacked the precision of his English Cousin"

"When I started this journey I was a curate"

"Will take offers"

"The traffic wardens around here are absolute bastards"

"Do I look as though I need a work permit ?"

"I still wish we'd gone fishing in Scotland"

"Your husband was obscenely rich. Unfortunately, he took up Polo"

"Yo Baby. I'm on the tube"

"Call me back. The old trout's on the other line"

Corporate and PR Cartoons
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Cartoon article- Make 'em laugh

Illustration for Deutsche Bank
Economics Outlook (2004)

Illustration for Barclays Capital, "Breaking Views" publication:
Telecom Heads roll. 2003

Illustration for Barclays Capital, "Breaking Views" publication:
Hedge Funds 2003

B/W or B/W wash cartoons for newspapers, colour for magazines and trade press.

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Commissioned, and sent out with the press release, this cartoon was published with coverage for the client on page 7 of the Financial Times.

Cartoon to publicise The Carphone Warehouse Press Office

Caricatures, Deals & Celebratory
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Caricature given to Generics to celebrate their flotation in April 2001

Caricature based around the Sydney Olympics, given to the board of Cable & Wireless to celebrate the sale of Optus to Singapore Telecom in December 2001

Caricature given to the board of Cable & Wireless to record the Exodus deal in San Francisco, USA

Caricature given to the board of Selfridges to record the successful sale of Selfridges to Galen Weston in November 2003

BHS / Arcadia cartoon. Presented to Sir Philip Green to celebrate the transaction. 2003

Presented to the board of National Express to commemorate their purchase of Continental Auto.

Celebration cartoon presented to Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP

Presented to Nike to celebrate the purchase of UMBRO

Presented to Nike to celebrate the purchase of UMBRO

Retirement gift for the chief executive of Dairy Crest

Caricature commissioned to celebrate the sale of Bodyshop to L'Oreal.

Presented to Premier Foods to celebrate their purchase of Campbell Soup / OXO Foods.

Commemoration of J O Hambro Investment Management 21st Birthday.

Retirement present from Lehman Brothers

Commemoration of sale of Waste Recycling Group by Terra Firma

Presented to the chief executive of Scottish & Newcastle on the occasion of his retirement

Presented to the chief executive and board of Scottish & Newcastle to commemorate their transaction with Carlsberg and Heineken

Invitations & Marketing
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Marketing cartoon for Fifth Floor dinners at Harvey Nichols

Dinner menu for The Sette of Odd Volumes

Comic style press release for a Mobile Phone company

Illustration for Arable Farming Magazine to show the agricultural map of the UK.

Year Book for The Sette of Odde Volumes

Menus for Dining Clubs....

Menus for Dining Clubs....

"So much for that banker in The Derby. It went bust." Menu cartoon for the Derby Dinner

Chinese New Year ..2008 brings its own problems....

Adverts & Trade press
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Comic strip developed for Marvin Marmite, and published in The Beano and The Dandy

"Cartoons to promote John Preston's latest men's collection have been published in Paris Match, The Figaro, and Marie France, and postcards are used for promotional campaigns.

Marketing leaflet for Lumley St. Aubyn Insurance

Marketing leaflet for Lumley St. Aubyn Insurance

Advertisement for breeders, Juddemont Farms in The Racing Post to thank their clients during Royal Ascot week.

Christmas Cards
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Lumley St. Aubyn (Insurance)

St Louis
( Property Developers)

David Sheppard & Partners (Executive Search)

Lumley St. Aubyn Insurance 2009

Lumley St. Aubyn Insurance 2009

Private client Christmas card.

Chinese New Year card for the Year of the Monkey 2004.

Detail from a christmas card design for the Countryside Alliance

Christmas card for the seven brands of Moet Hennessy

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The Savoy Hotel Group

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Brora tweeds and cashmeres

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The Countryside Alliance

Doctor on Call

Citigate Public Affairs

The Carphone Warehouse

J Walter Thompson

Weatherbys Group

Christmas card for Butterfield Private Bank, depicting the gherkin in The City of London

Weatherbys Bank PLC