Who Is Carl Warner

Carl Warner was born in Liverpool, 1963. At seven he moved to Kent and since he was an only child he spent a lot of time in his bedroom just listening to music, drawing/creating worlds from his imagination, inspired by portraits on his walls by artists like Salvador Dali and Patrick Woodroffe.
Warner uses food (mostly fruits and vegetables) as his medium and arranges them to befit a realistic image. Most of his pieces use an array of colours where he would use foods to match the colours, shapes or even textures of real life non-edible objects (e.g. using a rough potato to represent a rock). When making adverts the colours tare juxtaposed to make a single object (the item being promoted) stand out. In his children book, he made he said: “It is a children’s book featuring scenes made from predominantly one colour per piece which would help children understand shades of one colour and how they can be used to create a beautiful image”.
The ‘Foodscapes’ are made at his London studio where they are built on top of a large purpose built triangular table top. Carl and his model makers sometimes use
He used huge blocks of cheese which were split apart to show the internal texture of the cheese which you get when it is naturally split apart rather than when it is cut with a knife. The crumbly formations look craggy and rock like which seems perfect for the mountains and shows his deep understanding and respect for textures. From looking at the piece I was able to spot the use of herbs for shading and to show vegetation which surprised me and showed Carl’s amazing attention to detail but also how resolute he is to only use foods. By using lighting and fine-tuning he was able to achieve an incredibly realistic depiction that requires you to look twice to realise that all the elements of the photo are actually