Lee Rowell is a Dallas-based artist whose work weaves together a lifelong love of image-making, a deep grounding in psychology, and a hard-won commitment to personal transformation. Raised in a deeply religious home in northwest Alabama, he began drawing at the age of four and never stopped, using art as a private language long before he found the words to describe his inner world.
Educated in Psychology at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, and later in graduate school at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi, Lee became the first in his family to complete college and to pursue graduate studies. That training in human behavior, emotion, and memory continues to shape his creative practice, informing the way he approaches color, symbol, and composition as tools for exploring what it means to be fully human.
Since 2004, Lee has made Dallas, Texas his home, creating art alongside a parallel career in strategic project leadership and digital transformation. While his work began as a hobby, it quickly grew beyond the margins of his day job through the reach of his website and online presence, connecting him with collectors who respond to the intensity and honesty in his images.
Today, Lee works primarily in digital media, drawn to the immediacy and flexibility of creating on a screen, but he continues to produce pieces in oil, acrylic, mixed media, and drawing. Across mediums, his artwork is rich in color and emotion, often experimenting with representation, abstraction, and unconventional mark-making to evoke states of mind that are difficult to name but instantly felt.
From the age of nineteen, Lee has experienced profound tragedy and radical change - losses and upheavals that fractured his sense of self and forced him to rebuild. Those seasons of grief, doubt, reconstruction, and renewal lie just beneath the surface of his images, where light pushes through shadow and fractured forms find new wholeness.
Guided by an ongoing practice of deep self-reflection, Lee approaches each piece as part of a continuous process of becoming rather than a fixed destination. In this way, art is not only something he makes; it is a way learns, heals, and transforms, again and again, inviting viewers to recognize their own stories of brokenness and becoming with his work.