Lee Lee Brazeal moved to Houston, Texas in 1980, after growing up studying art on the east coast. She calls Houston home even though she was actually born in Jackson, Tenn.

She studied design and advertising in North Carolina then studied art, design and Illustration at the School of Visual Arts, New York City.

After Leaving New York she worked as an Art Director for eight years, Then turned to illustration and worked as a national illustrator for ten years. She had a very successful career as an illustrator and won many prestigious awards.

In 1991 she and her husband started a gate company designing custom art gates for big ranches, subdivisions, and businesses. Her company is still alive and her designs have proven to be innovative and ground breaking.

Commercial illustration and design did not keep her from pursuing her painting privately. She has always seen herself as a painter, her paintings are intensely personal and charged by her book worthy life experiences.