Lee Spence

Lee Spence (b:1989)
Designer. Born and raised in Plymouth, England. "My work explores themes of time, balance, space and pattern. Most of my attempt is at creating internal landscapes, to visualize some of the inner workings of how we feel and think when we find ourselves in certain moods. What that can look like. I'm interested most in producing work that captures a mood in one way or another. That's how I like to use shape and color. Once a painting or a design is done I like to keep looking back at it to check whether it feels like the original mood I was making it in and/or for. If it matches then I'm happy with it, and it acts like a kind of tool to remind me of or bring me back to that mood. That's really it. I'm letting go of them having to look a certain way and thinking more about how they feel when you look at them. And because so much of my commercial graphic design work is by-the-book so to speak; logos, ads, that kind of thing, I tend to lean pretty heavily into the abstract when I create my personal stuff."

OVRLPS is a new series of printed designs that continues the theme of finding some sense of internal balance amongst the chaos of the outside. "Balance to the People" was my last full set of paintings that I made ...

Arts University of Plymouth (Plymouth College of Art and Design) - Graphic Design, Print & Illustration

OCT 2018 THUMBPRINT GALLERY, San Diego, CA

OCT 2018 DESERT VIBES GROUP SHOW, Twentynine Palms, CA

OCT 2018 MINNAAR FINE ART, La Jolla, CA

FEB 2019 F.L.A.K. GROUP SHOW, Long Beach CA

JULY 2019 A BEAUTIFUL ERROR POP-UP GROUP SHOW, Long Beach, CA

SEPT 2019 BHAKTI FEST, Twentynine Palms, CA

2020/21 "BALANCE TO THE PEOPLE", online

2021 "THE KNOWN NOW", online

Works held in private collections in the US (California, Oregon, Chicago), Amsterdam, Switzerland, England and France.