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From the abundant still-life paintings of the Renaissance era to Andy Warhol’s pop art featuring Campbell’s soup cans, it’s fair to say artists have always had a penchant for depicting food.
Even today, our culture has a certain obsession with documenting our favourite restaurants for social media, scrolling cooking content, and curating snaps of our own home-made meals.
But there’s something extra special about how contemporary artists can immortalise moments around mealtime in their works.
One of our favourite talents taking on this theme is Phoebe Stone. The self-taught Sydney artist works predominately with oil pastels and has a beautiful selection of works on board available to shop through Boom Gallery.
We also love Stacey McCall’s pastel artworks, including the soft colours of this tablescape aptly titled Mid Winter.
Meanwhile, Melbourne artist Libby Haines has amassed a staggering 110,000 followers for her highly coveted still-life paintings, capturing everything from a chaotic dinner party to dirty martinis. There’s a rare original piece for sale on her website right now too…
Using ultra precise techniques, layering thousands of individual dots, Rose Goodchild captures food with an extraordinary sense of realism that is totally breathtaking.
But maybe the best part about food-filled artworks is how evocative and familiar they can be. For instance, if breakfast is your favourite meal of the day, you’ll feel an instant connection to the The Abandoned Breakfast by Tracey Schramm.
And just looking at Michelle Kettle’s oil painting of fresh tomatoes transports us to a garden with smells of spring in the air.
And if we weren’t already hanging out for the change in season, Orange Wine from Nicola Hart current exhibition Memories of Light at Project Gallery Woollahra has us dreaming about a sunny long lunch with a delicious wine in hand!
