Lee John Phillips is an award winning freelance illustrator and designer from Pembrokeshire, West Wales. He has had 17 years in creative education, delivering GCSE and A-Level Art and Design and post graduate teacher training. He has recently relinquished these institutional posts to focus on teaching green woodworking and craft independently.
He is an avid sketchbook keeper and for the past 9 years he has been drawing and cataloguing the entire contents of his late grandfather’s toolshed. To date he has drawn over 8,500 items and estimates this to be a fraction of the total. He sees it as his life’s work.
Lee predominately carves small pocket spoons that are decorated in various ways and he sees these talisman-like forms as a delicate combination of functional utensil and contemporary sculpture.
