The Creative Vision of Foodie Artists

7 min readFeb 20, 2021

Chocolate sauce, apple skin, flour, and cookies. It’s not a recipe but ingredients used to create incredible artworks. Creativity flourishes in different ways for everyone, and these artists have found their inspiration in food. Fascinating, detailed, visionary are some of the words that describe these artists and their gastronomic artworks.

Jolita Vaitkutè

Jolita Vaitkutè is a Lithuanian artist that often portrays social or political problems through her works. She works with an assortment of materials, from soil and garbage to food. She does not work with any ingredient in particular but instead likes to broaden her choices that range from fruit peels to a variety of desserts. Her works never go to waste. After every exhibition is over or when they take a picture, she and the guests enjoy the food.

Official Page: https://www.vaitkute.com/

Instagram: @jolitavaitkute

Angel Boraliev

Angel Boraliev is a Bulgarian artist recognized for making detailed sculptures out of pumpkins. He’s been working in the hotel industry for years, which allows him to exhibit his work to a diversity of people and also to experiment with his creativity to deliver a certain mood to the guests. Although pumpkins are his trademark material, he uses a variety of fruits and vegetables. He mostly sculpts animals but also has many flower designs and geometrical patterns. His work is extremely detailed, resulting in realistic sculptures.

Instagram: @atelierabcarving

Luis Carlos Cifuentes

Luis Carlos Cifuentes is a Colombian painter and graphic designer. He became an internet sensation in 2016 when he shared his painting of Mick Jagger made with caramel on a wafer. He held two exhibitions in 2016 and 2017 where his main works were realistic paintings done on dinner plates. His paint mediums were Nutella, spicy sauce, jam, and coffee, among other ingredients. The detail that he puts on these pieces is incredible and has gained him an important place as a renowned artist in Colombia.

Official Page: https://www.cifuentesarte.com/

Instagram: @cifuentesarte

Jason Mecier

Jason Mecier is an American artist that creates portraits of famous personalities ranging from singers, movies and T.V. characters, and cartoons. The ingredients he uses are varied and sometimes chosen for a specific purpose. As an example, he created Big Bird’s portrait out of cereal, which is often targeted as breakfast for kids. He is probably the best-known artist among the displayed here because his work has appeared on T.V. and music videos, and many celebrities owned portraits made by him. Some of his works are even part of Ripley’s permanent collections.

Official Page: https://thejasonmecier.com/biography/

Instagram: @jasonmecier

Giulia Bernardelli

Julia Bernardelli is an Italian artist whose works became an internet sensation through Instagram. Her works are the result of a spur of inspiration, an inspiration that came from spilling coffee. She doesn’t plan the works ahead and rather allows her imagination to lead the way. For the same reason, she uses leaves or fruit peels as paintbrushes. Although she mostly uses coffee as paint, she has also worked with syrups, flour, and fruits. Her paintings range from recreating famous artworks to portraits to scenes from movies or books.

Instagram: @bernulia

Linda Ring

Linda Ring is a Swedish artist, photographer, and stylist. What makes her art characteristic is that she uses sourdough as the canvas. It all began when she wanted to provide a creative and nutritious breakfast that her family would enjoy, and bread was a classic and familiar option. However, she wanted it to feel authentic, and so she carved faces on the dough. It resulted in something so original that many are enamored with her bread.

Instagram: @lindasofiaring

Hasan Kale

Hasan Kale is a Turkish painter with a technique so precise that he creates miniature paintings with lots of details. His canvas can be anything that is considerably small, but he mostly uses food like popcorns, pumpkin seeds, almonds, or rice grains. His attention to detail and his unmatchable talent with the paintbrush have gained him the nickname of “Microangelo.” A painting this small can take him up to six or eight months to complete, but the outcome is always breathtaking.

Official Page: http://www.hasankale.com/wm/

Instagram: @hasankale_microangelo

Carl Warner

Carl Warner is a British artist and photographer. He once envisioned a mushroom in a supermarket as an alien tree, and after that, he began creating small scenes that only consisted of food. Through photography manipulation, he created settings that look as if they belong to scenes in fantasy books. He named these works Foodscapes. His work has been recognized worldwide and has landed him lots of T.V. commercials and opportunities to create posters to influence good nutrition, especially among kids.

Official Page: http://www.carlwarner.com/artist/

Instagram: @carlwarnerofficial

Jolanda Stokkersman

Jolanda Stokkersman is a Belgic artist admired for her creative works using a mixture of foods. It all started when her kids proposed that she should share her dishes with the world. Some of her most praised works are those that represent animals, but she also makes portraits and has even attempted abstract art. The colorful and innovative works quickly gained recognition, and she is now becoming an internet phenomenon. Her works can take hours to complete, and although the final result is too good to be eaten, she never wastes the food and always eats the final work of art.

Instagram: @demealprepper

Maciek Jasik

Maciek Jasik is a Polish artist and photographer whose desire is to reveal the role that human society plays in nature. In his work, The Secret Lives, he exhibited a series of photographs where fruits were the main and only object. A colorful smoke comes out from the middle of these fruits, filling the space. Through this work, he wanted to show how our familiarity with fruits and vegetables is broken when we forget about their origins. It’s easy to find almost any type of fruit or vegetable in our supermarkets even though the root of their origin is another country and they grow in another type of weather. This is an analogy to nature and how we can take for granted the many things that it provides for our survival.
Apart from this, he also likes to experiment with the aesthetics of his works and often uses a monochromatic background with altered foods in the foreground, creating intriguing but visually pleasing photographs.