Girl Reading By Candlelight - Paintings

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This painting was previously part of my private collection until its sale in 2017. This piece helped to define me as an artist and is still on of my personal favorites and bests. It is moody and colorful, reminiscent of the fauvist paintings of Matisse and Cezanne. It is a unique and valuable collectors item.

Note: This painting is also unique in that it was created on canvas and stretcher bars made and stretched by the artist himself. Painting has been cleaned and varnished to bring out the original color and to protect the painting.

This painting is signed on the front and includes my Certificate of Authenticity.

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Item Girl Reading By Candlelight

Created by PMS Artwork

As seen in Private Residence, Westlake Village, CA

Meet the Creator

PMS Artwork

Los Angeles, CA

Wescover creator since 2021

"I paint the light and dark within us all."

Artist Preston M. Smith (PMS Artwork) found himself cross-eyed and with no depth perception as a child. This was the "lens" through which he developed his unique visual perspective of the world, which he now shares as a painter. Before focusing completely on his visual artwork, Preston spent many years developing and expanding his creative mindset by acting professionally, touring and lead singing for a punk/ska band, and writing two novels as well as a collection of poetry and original paintings. All of this experience fed into his ability to access his creative voice and communicate his own experience. Over the years, Preston’s artwork has transitioned from moody pop surrealist paintings into vibrantly colorful, tactile, highly textured and almost "edible" abstract works. His mantra for his abstract work is "color, texture, beauty and decay", and his work and life have been an expression of moving from darkness into light. Preston’s work has been showcased alongside David Lynch and at the Inaugural Purple Ball for President Obama’s Inauguration in 2009, where he was commissioned to paint 12 portraits of the President. Very recently, Preston is coming off of a successful Solo Exhibition at ShockBoxx Gallery in Hermosa Beach California and his first two showings at the LA Art Show in Downtown L.A.. His work has also been selected by a panel of curators as a winner in the 1st 2018 ArtSlant Artprize Showcase and has been on display at the world famous La Luz De Jesus Gallery, and in numerous exhibitions throughout Los Angeles and across the country. Preston's work has also been the subject of a documentary short entitled "Negativity To Creativity" and is in more than 450 private collections around the world as well in the homes of celebrities such as Ed Harris, Ashley Judd, Josh Lucas, and so forth.

Girl Reading By Candlelight - Paintings

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