He is both a "railway painter", a title that spreads wide, and an art history scholar. His in-depth understanding of the interplay between history and scenery has also led him to the making of Map of Ancient Taiwan and Painting Book of Taiwanese Scenery.

　　How to strike a balance between painting and writing? Lee combines these two in a most spontaneous way: his language is calm and cool, while his painting passionate.
Since his exhibition entitled "A Gaze at the Moon in a Train Station" in year 2004, Lee has leaned more toward a style of simplicity which is different from that of flamboyance in the past. He visits the same old station for several times to represent its subtle differences shown from different observance angles, in different seasons and time passages during the same day. He makes such records with not tiresome effort. His enthusiasm to maintain railway cultures and his indulgence in the railway world are equal.

　　Many people have asked, "What are you going to paint in the future, as there is no single inch of railway route not visited by you."
This hopeless railway fan's answer to that question is his new plan "Original Scenery of Train Stations: All the Stops along the North-South Railway Route of 1908". Lee plans to restore every single train station back in 1908. To do this, he has to refer to historical document and literature first. Then he follows the route to visit all these stations one by one. Some of them are well preserved, whereas others no longer exist. And there are still many others that have been renovated, but somehow the renovation spoilt their features. So to him, the greatest challenge is how to represent those many stations now in a monotonous style. It seems that this confident painter is again on his way to the journey.