Lee was born in Penzance and after leaving school, trained in painting at Falmouth and North Staffs University. For several years he worked in a variety of jobs but it was not until a return to his home town that he took up printmaking under Sue Lewington at Penzance School of Art.
Lee now enjoys working in a range of media including charcoal, oils, linocut , etching and mono-printmaking. His work is primarily a response to the West Cornwall landscape which he loves, but more recently he has also taken to the human figure as a subject.