 She went on to study at the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury from 1966 to 1968, and then the St Albans School of Fine Art in Hertfordshire, England, where she completed a Diploma of Art Therapy in 1974.Preston has one daughter, the actor Chelsie Preston Crayford, who was born in 1987.Preston's first film was "All The Way Up There".