His knowledge of metals consists of seven years working as a machinist and engraver and ten years casting experience in various foundries in-between art studies at the Portland School of Art, in Portland, Maine in 1988. For over 25 years Lee has been collaborating with other artists and constantly increased his knowledge as a modeler which has helped him develop his truly unique creative art pieces.

  He is noted as a Maine Master Craftsman by the Portland Stove Foundry, significantly for the stoves that were in the Master Crafted Signature Series in 1977. Through the years, he has developed his own foundry where he transformed his creativity in works of brass, bronze, glass, and sometimes aluminum and iron, designing pieces unlike any which have been produced before.