![Margaret Preston - Implement Blue [1927]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5826/22158458925_55acbfb447_o.jpg)
Margaret Preston (Port Adelaide, April 29, 1875 - Mosman, May 28, 1963) was an Australian artist. Preston's emergence as one of the most powerful exponents of Australian Modernism in the 1920s is inextricably linked to her extensive travels and studies in Europe between 1904 and 1907. These experiences and resulting artistic revelations would colour Preston's practice, her critical thinking and theorising for the remainder of her life. Despite a deep self-confidence in her artistic talent, she was keen to travel abroad for finishing lessons, wanting to see how her work measured up in an international context. Following her mother Prudence's death in 1903, Preston travelled with student Bessie Davidson to Europe where they stayed until 1907, studying in Munich and Paris, and travelling in Italy, Africa, Spain and Holland.
[Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney - Oil on canvas on hardboard, 42.5 x 43 cm]