Research - Carl Warner - Foodscapes

Carl Warner, is a unique landscape artist, who constructs landscape's from everyday food, and produces mesmerising photographs of the scenes he creates. ‘Foodscapes’ are created in Carl’s London studio where they are built on top of a large purpose built triangular table top. The scenes are photographed in layers from foreground to background and sky as the process is very time consuming and so the food quickly wilts under the lights. Each element is then put together in post production to achieve the final image.

I was fascinated by Warner's Photographs, the incredible skill and model making, in order to produce the images is incredible.

“I tend to draw a very conventional landscape using classic compositional techniques as I need to fool the viewer into thinking it is a real scene at first glance, it is the realisation that the scene is in fact made of food that brings a smile that brings a smile to the viewer, and for me that’s the best part”

Carl Warner's use of lighting is extremely affective, the realistic natural light brings the landscape's to life. I feel this is a really important technique in producing any piece of art work, from Painting, too film, and Photography. Warner's photograph's allow the observer to scrutinise each detail of the landscape, to question the way it was constructed using food. The images below a selection of Warner's recent works.