the work of Tom Lee
pulvis et umbra sumus
we are but dust and shadow
"I draw the quiet, decaying things — chapels the world forgot, ravens at dusk, and reminders that nothing earthly lasts."
Tom Lee is a self-taught ink artist working in pen, wash and tea-stained paper. His work dwells on the gothic and the memento mori: crumbling architecture, bare winter trees, and vanitas studies in fine cross-hatched line.
Each piece begins as a dip-pen drawing, then the paper is aged with tea and coffee washes until it carries the warmth of something centuries old.