Artist born in Lewes, Sussex whose work had a strong fantasy element. Lee-Elliott studied at Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1925–7. Appeared in a four-man show at Thackeray Gallery, 1977. Solo shows included Pulchri, The Hague; Iolas, New York; Redfern Gallery; Chatham Gallery in Hong Kong; and Miyuki, Tokyo. Was chosen to contribute three works to the British section at Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, International Exhibition of Religous Art, 1965. Although he was the son of a clergyman, Lee-Elliott was not himself a believer, although after a serious illness while abroad in his mid-fifties he was moved to paint a series of powerfully Expressionist religious pictures in which the figure of Christ and the wood of cross conjoin. A good example is the tempera and gouache Crucified tree form – the agony, in the Methodist Church Collection.