About

My creative talent was found as a child, which I then carried through my educational years, studying Art up to degree level.

I graduated from Aberystwyth University, in 2009, with a BA Joint Honours in Mathematics and Fine Art.

In 2011, I decided to take up teaching as a career and started a PGCE in post compulsory education teaching maths. I have been a maths teacher ever since, during which I have maintained my creative interest.

Friends and family would ask me to draw lots of different things for them, from pets to family portraits, but it was the fictional characters that I really enjoyed drawing. Drawing fictional characters from my favourite game and film franchises has been a passion of mine ever since I was a child. Growing up throughout the 90s, I would typically be found drawing characters such as Mario and Sonic and many more. Having a career, enabling me to live a stable life, allowed me to focus my talents on to my drawing, and this was were my drawings really came to life.

I decided to stop doing commissioned drawings and draw only what I wanted to, and sell prints instead.

In 2014, I started to record myself drawing and made my first YouTube video.

After attending several different events, selling my work and gaining recognition, the success of my YouTube channel and the sales of my prints were ever increasing.

Then, in the summer of 2020, myself and my partner welcomed our new baby daughter into the world.

With this in mind, it was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain my hobbies and interests. I decided to take a break from drawing and focus on my baking instead. This was how Exceeding.Lee.Good.Bakes started.

Whilst I still draw, I do not get as much time as I used to, and this meant I needed to change the way I worked. I have handed the sales of print over to Liaisons UK who are a charitable, non profit company, providing framed pieces to all of the UK.

My talent to be creative expands beyond drawing, and I have always dabbled in to different things throughout my life. Baking being one of them.

I truly believe that having a mathematical and logical way of thinking helps me with my artistic talents, much like previous artists M.C.Escher (surrealism) and Leonardo Da Vinci (Renaissance), two I most aspire to.

I feel that my drawings offer a unique style that has developed over the years and have become popular and favoured through my Youtube channel.

In my work, you will notice there is strong emphasis of light and shadow, a technique called Chiaroscuro typically found in most renaissance art. In my Youtube Videos, you will also notice, at the initial stages of my drawings, I use mathematical concepts like scaling to proportionately lay out the image onto my work space. This allows me to capture the subject with precision.

You can find out more about my drawings and my baking by clicking the relevant links below.