Profile
Lee is a Swansea based Illustrator with a diverse knowledge of different techniques and media. He is particularly interested in, and skilled at, printmaking and digital editing and always pays great attention to detail and quality. His main body of work is a juxtaposition between Japanese aesthetics/practices and defamiliarization with parallelism by transferring the usual perception of an object into the sphere of new perception. When perception becomes habitual, it becomes unconsciously automatic. Sequentially from this idea, to make the viewer see the art in a different perspective, he takes the familiar object and creates a contrast by using different techniques related to printmaking. The effect of such techniques is to initiate curiosity and elicit the sense of being engulfed by what the viewer is spectating, resulting in an experience of being hypnotised by what they do not see when being surrounded by the familiar.
Articles:
www.peopleofprint.com/solo-artist/lee-richards-tree-ring-prints/
www.peopleofprint.com/solo-artist/lee-richards-chine-colle-tree-ring-prints
