About
The joyful art of seeing differently.
About DAMFunArt
For 25 years, I created realism and portrait art with meticulous detail. Now, I'm riding out on a completely different creative adventure with DAMFunArt - where gel plates, pareidolia, and pure fun have replaced my old rules.
My Artistic Journey
After decades of precision and control, I discovered the joy of letting go. Through gel plate printing and mixed-media techniques, I create narrative-driven art that celebrates the unexpected characters and stories that emerge from the creative process.
What Makes DAMFunArt Different
Each piece is a unique exploration where vibrant colors, expressive forms, and storytelling come together. I embrace pareidolia - finding faces and characters in abstract forms - to create art that's playful, premium, and full of personality.
Welcome to my creative adventure. I'm so glad you're here!
About My Printing Process
I work with gel plate printing — a technique that involves repeatedly applying paint onto a gelatinous flat plate and pulling prints. I change colors, layer marks, and keep going until the paper is fully coated and alive with history.
The process draws on four elements:
- Paper — all kinds: copy, tissue, card stock, magazine pages, the inside of security envelopes
- Paint — many colors, textures, and types
- Mark-making tools — anything goes: scraping, drawing, blocking, whatever creates texture
- Agents of chaos — alcohol, water spray, powder, inks — anything that makes the paint separate, blend, or move
Each sheet builds up its own story: colors from previous prints, textures from different tools, happy accidents from paint left behind. I work with these layers, not against them. Sometimes there's a face hiding in the marks. Sometimes it's an animal, a figure, a whole scene. That's pareidolia — the brain's tendency to find familiar forms in abstract patterns — and it's become the heart of my practice.
These papers drive my entire art practice. They're used exclusively for my Meet the Characters, Faces in a Grid, and It's a Crowd series. They also fuel my collage series, Collage à la Pareidolia — where photography inspires the composition and the gel-printed papers become the material that brings it to life.
I spent years obsessing over realism and portrait painting. Gel printing taught me to let the process take over — and it turns out, the process has a real sense of humor.