Carolyn Lee
I was born in Toronto in 1957 where I grew up. I have been married for 27 years and my husband and I have two children. We are all still living in Toronto.
I have always been interested in the arts as I attended the commercial art course in high school. I went from there to working as a floral designer and attending night school studying pottery.
In 1981, I graduated from a two year commercial ceramics course at George Brown College. I have had my own pottery studio for thirty years and I have participated in many art and craft shows across southern Ontario.
A few years ago my artistic life took a new direction all because I learned to ride a motorcycle. I started to think about working with leather. I thought that making custom motorcycle bags would be something challenging and different. I took a leather working course but I soon realized that every motorcycle has different shaped leather accesories! Doing custom orders for people was great but I couldn't keep a large inventory. My idea to create custom designs on leather for motorcycles evolved into creating custom designs on leather accessories for people to wear.
I am very excited about this new work as it lets me use small pieces of leather to make beautiful one of a kind wearable art. I have shown my work at the One of a Kind Show in Toronto as well as many smaller shows. I am happy that the feed back from customers has been so positive.
I hope you enjoy viewing and possibly owning a piece of my work!
- Carolyn Lee
I have always been interested in the arts as I attended the commercial art course in high school. I went from there to working as a floral designer and attending night school studying pottery.
In 1981, I graduated from a two year commercial ceramics course at George Brown College. I have had my own pottery studio for thirty years and I have participated in many art and craft shows across southern Ontario.
A few years ago my artistic life took a new direction all because I learned to ride a motorcycle. I started to think about working with leather. I thought that making custom motorcycle bags would be something challenging and different. I took a leather working course but I soon realized that every motorcycle has different shaped leather accesories! Doing custom orders for people was great but I couldn't keep a large inventory. My idea to create custom designs on leather for motorcycles evolved into creating custom designs on leather accessories for people to wear.
I am very excited about this new work as it lets me use small pieces of leather to make beautiful one of a kind wearable art. I have shown my work at the One of a Kind Show in Toronto as well as many smaller shows. I am happy that the feed back from customers has been so positive.
I hope you enjoy viewing and possibly owning a piece of my work!
- Carolyn Lee