Hameline has spent the past several years gathering shelf mushrooms and drawing ... York City when he was an abstract expressionist oil painter fresh out of the Pratt Art Institute in Brooklyn.

He also used photography to create abstract portraits of himself and others. His 'Big Self-Portrait' was one of his most famous works, and amassed as a 9ft high painting of a head around fifty ...

“All the ways fungus and mushrooms exist in the world ... The result is a varied selection of abstract art where students transformed scientific data into their own concepts.