Lee Fuller

Lee primarily works in found wood. Each tree species has specific characteristics: smell, weight, grain colour and patterns, hardness, and strength. Every individual piece of wood has contained a life force and has a history. This is shown in growth patterns, knots, colours, intact and deteriorated areas, etc. Lee gives deference the material and accepts its strength and weaknesses. He looks for an image that can be brought out. There is an interplay between the wood and the artist. The material has a say in what it will become.

Working on a sculpture brings Lee into a relationship with a unique once living object. The process is spiritual when it touches imagination, emotion, and intuition. This helps him recognize that there is a world beyond the rational and tangible. It brings Lee out of himself. Making art is part of his lived experience.

Lee believes that some of his sculpture encapsulates a “more” than can be seen and touched. This is what he strives for, but it is a gift when it happens.