The Story Of LeeBB Art

Hi there, my name is Lee Bagley-Bramwell. I am fairly new to the world of art, however, I have quickly found a love for watercolour painting and sketching.

With each piece of art, I try to tell a story whether it is through a setting, the eyes of an animal or even a slight smile. My journey has only just begun yet I have so much to share.

You will find that I love to paint animals and beautiful landscape paintings. As an artist the journey is continuous and you find yourself meandering through style, subjects and mediums.

How It All Began

When I was in my second year of what we call Primary School here in the UK, I was about 7 years of age, I painted a male duck, a drake. It was great for my age and I was awarded a certificate of excellence. I still remember walking up to the front of the assembly hall in front of the school to receive it.

I did art lessons at school as we all did growing up, but nothing serious. Just what we all did in art lessons at school. I wasn’t too bad. That was until I was 14. I had to choose my subject for the last two high school years. However, because we had to take a language, I ran out of options spaces. This meant that I couldn’t take art as a subject. I ended up getting a GCSE grade of D for German. To this day I feel I wasted my time learning a language. I’d much prefer to have taken art.

Then What?

Then I did absolutely nothing. No art whatsoever. I jumped from job to job. Over the years, work led me to a 10-year career in online marketing.

In 2020, I set up my own garden services business and never looked back. It’s great to be working outdoors and being close to nature.

How Did I Get Into Art?

I followed a friend on Instagram. She was going through a tough time with her health. She had taken up watercolour as a hobby. I saw her painting and thought about how beautiful they were. I said to my husband that I’d like to have a go at painting with watercolours one day.

Then, in Christmas 2021 He bought me a watercolour paint set from the range. Then, at the end of January 2022, I painted my first ever watercolour painting of a mountain. It turned out pretty good. That's when I discovered I could paint and that all those many years ago at primary school, I had something and that it wasn't a fluke.

I painted a couple more mountains over the next few months, and then in August of that year, I took it more seriously and started painting most days.

I set up an Instagram account to post regularly as my art diary. Since then I have been learning and progressing with each piece I create.

Most of my work is from imagination, I would say about 95% is from imagination.

I set up my website and have since been selling my art around the world to countries including France, Spain, Belgium, the UK, Italy, Saudi Arabia and the USA.