Lee Mims
Lee Mims was raised on a farm in Raleigh, North Carolina, and received her Master’s Degree in Geology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Some may ask how she happened to become an artist after being trained as a scientist. She credits her childhood on a farm in creating her lifelong love of animals, the great outdoors, and a desire to recreate the beauty she saw around her.
Like many self-taught artists, she started painting as a diversion from my career which changed after her children were born; from being a geologist to being a horse trainer. Soon requests from friends for portraits of their children, horses and various pets led her to start a small studio. That was twenty-five years and many portraits ago. Her clientele includes doctors, judges, educators, businessmen and women, a United States Senator and lots of children.
She has displayed her work in solo exhibits in galleries as well as The North Carolina Estuarium and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science.
She paints exclusively in oil on canvas, linen or treated panels and uses only the finest quality oils with the highest amount of pigment available on the market today to create a work that she feels will endure for generations to come.
