Mug 18oz. 

Artist: Preston, Mark

Mark Preston (Tenna-Tsa-Teh) is an aboriginal artist from Dawson City, Yukon. He is of Tlingit and Irish ancestry.

Mark Preston learned about his Tlingit ancestry through family and school study. Initially, he began studying art through European masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, but later discovered northwest coast native artists such as Bill Reid, Robert Davidson and Roy Vickers.

He cites Mark Rothko and Jack Bush as influences in his more recent aboriginal paintings and artworks which transcend the traditional Tlingit native art form and move him closer into the abstract and contemporary realm.

Mark has studied various mediums in paper, cloth, wood, metals, stone and glass. He studied silver carving with well-known master jeweler and carver Phil Janze (Gitskan Nation) at Hazelton, BC.