ABOUT AMY LEE
Art has always been somewhere in the family.
I’m Amy Lee, a Massachusetts-based artist working across charcoal, acrylic, textured fine art, hand-painted wearable pieces and custom projects.
My work is rooted in something pretty simple: making things by hand still matters.
It started long before I realized it.
THE STORY
Art runs through my family.
My grandmother was an incredibly talented decorative artist who specialized in hand-painted antique trays and furniture. Some of my earliest memories of creating came from the “game days” she would put together for us as kids—usually involving plenty of arts, crafts, and making things with our hands.
My father is an artist too. He specialized in reverse glass painting and showed his work locally. Growing up around that kind of creativity meant drawing and making things never felt unusual. It was simply part of life.
I took art throughout school, but eventually life got busy and creating took a back seat for a while.
Then, about seven years ago, I was home one day, bored, and picked up a pencil.
…The drawing was a turtle with a machine gun.
There wasn’t a grand plan behind it. I just thought it would be cool.
When my boyfriend came home, he couldn’t believe I’d drawn it. He told my best friend, and the two of them started in on me because I had been keeping this talent hidden for years and they had no idea. They both continued pushing me to keep going.
So I did.
I started sketching again. Then researching artists. Studying techniques. Experimenting with materials. Practicing—a lot.
And somewhere along the way, something I’d always loved became something I began taking seriously.
My family continued encouraging me to put the work out into the world and eventually to accept commissions. What started with a pencil and a very questionable turtle has grown into the work I create today.
I believe the things we make by hand carry something mass-produced things can’t.
A little evidence of the person who made it.
And something of the person it was made for.
THE POINT OF VIEW
I’m drawn to simplicity—to stripping something down until only what matters remains.
There’s beauty in that kind of restraint. There’s vulnerability in it too.
My work often moves between softness and strength: family and independence, tradition and individuality, darkness and humor, precision and imperfection.
Those contrasts are part of what interests me.
Outside the studio, I’ve also spent time training in martial arts and around disciplines that value control, awareness, repetition, and precision. I think some of that inevitably finds its way into how I approach making art—not necessarily through the subject itself, but through the mindset behind it.
I don’t believe a piece needs to shout to have presence.
Simple doesn’t mean without meaning.
ROOTED IN
The people, stories, skills, and histories worth carrying forward.
TRADITION
Removing what doesn’t matter until what’s left feels honest.
SIMPLICITY
Creating something that belongs specifically to a person, story, or space.
INDIVIDUALITY
WHY I MAKE IT
Art should feel like it belongs to you.
Whether I’m drawing someone you love, painting something you’ll wear, or creating a piece for a particular wall, I want the finished work to feel personal.
I want it to carry something—love, strength, humor, memory, identity, or simply a feeling you can’t quite explain.
Something that makes you happy when you see it.
Something you’re proud to live with.
Something that couldn’t quite belong to anyone else.
