Fay Lee grew up in Escambia County in South Alabama, and
always had a talent for drawing.  She now lives in New
Hampshire where she is a member of the Artisans Gallery of
Tilton and the York Art Association (ME).  She participates in art
shows and competitions in the Northeast.
    She took painting classes in New York from Joe McDowell of
Nyack, N.Y., and in Montgomery took classes and workshops
from Joe Robinson of Destin, Florida, Deborah Gibson of
Alexander City, AL, Ann Calagaz of Mobile, and Jim Lewis of
Olympia, Washington, and from local instructors in Montgomery,
AL (Donnave Lindsey, Connie Lewis, Clark Walker, Virginia
Kelley, Sharon Yavis, Shirley Baird, and Marguerite Edwards.)
    She has been in juried shows with the York Art Association
(ME), the Newburyport Art Association (Regions
Bank/Montgomery Art Guild (AL), the Museum of Fine
Arts/Montgomery Art Guild(AL), Society of Arts and Crafts (AL),
Selma Art Guild (AL) and Elmore County Art Guild (AL), as well
as the Experimental Artists of Alabama juried show at Samford
University in Birmingham, AL.  She has been in group shows with
the WAOAPOA Art Group at Alabama State University in
Montgomery (AL), Central Alabama Community College in
Alexander City (AL), Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in
Andalusia (AL), and High Cotton in Alexander City, AL, and at the
Coliseum Boulevard Branch of the Montgomery (AL) Public
Library System.  She has, also, been in shows with the Yancey
Avenue Gallery in Montgomery, AL.
    Several years ago, she had a painting in an invitational show
entitled "Alabama Landscapes" at the Wiregrass Museum of Art
in Dothan, AL, which then went on tour around Alabama for six
months.
Fay realized early on that she could draw and paint but was never
encouraged to pursue this talent.  She took classes while living in
New York and knew this was something she wanted to pursue.  
She has been painting in oil and acrylic since 1978 and started
painting in watercolor in 1987.  She, also, works in pastels, mixed
media, collage, and pen & ink.  She does local and regional art
shows, and has occasional one-woman shows.  She did many
one-woman and group shows in Alabama and since moving to
NH, she had a show at the Bank of New Hampshire in Wolfeboro
Falls in 2005, and she had two shows at the Tuftonboro, NH,
Library in 2004 and 2005, as well as a two-woman show at the
Wolfeboro Library in 2007.
She has won many awards at various art shows, including "Best
of Show” twice, and has paintings in collections throughout the
United States and in several other countries, including Germany,
France, England, Hungary, Luxembourg and Japan.
She is or has been a member of York Art Association,
Newburyport Art Association, Durham Art Association,
Manchester Art Association, Black Bear Art Association, the
Society of Arts and Crafts, Experimental Artists of Alabama,
Montgomery Art Guild, Elmore County Art Guild, Shelby County
Art Association, Eastern Shore Art Association, and the
WAOAPOA Art Group.  She sells her work through the Artisans
Gallery of Tilton, NH, SAC's Gallery in Montgomery, AL, and at
local and regional shows in the Northeast.
    Through the Volunteer & Information Center and the Junior
League of Montgomery, Fay was nominated for Volunteer of the
Year for 2002 by the Radio Reading Service for the Blind and by
SAC's Gallery.  There were three corporate awards, two awards to
organizations, two special awards and four individual awards.
Fay was selected for the 2002 Arts Volunteer of the Year Award.

    Fay can be contacted at:
               artbyfay@metrocast.net or 603-569-9677.
               Her website is
www.artbyfay.com
    She is married to Bob Lee and they have two children, Mike
and Christine.
Fay Lee

Artistic Painter