Carl Warner

The Milan Expo in 2015 focused on Feeding the planet. UK Trade and Investment partnered with Warner to display the UK's impact in global agriculture innovation. Warner created a series of animations using beans, rice, coffee and maize to illustrate the UK's global solutions to feeding the planet. His commercial was titled Resilient Rice.

Warner has set up his own production company known as Frooty Films in June 2014. Within the company he has directed and created television commercials for Nestlé, Honey Nut Cheerios, Moe's Southwest Grill and the Milan EXPO 2015.

Warner's second book, A World of Food, is a children's book published in 2012 by Harry N. Abrams. Each Foodscape is composed primarily of a single color and is accompanied by poems written by Warner. Each image is composed entirely from foods from around the world. With this book, Warner hopes to alter children's perception of food and educate them about healthy eating and nutrition.

Food Landscapes was published in 2010 by Harry N. Abrams in New York. The book collects Warner's early works spanning from 1998. It shows behind the scenes images of Warner and his team assembling the structures. It covers details of what inspired each Foodscape and how each was created from initial sketches through to the ingredients used in the photography.

Warner began directing television commercials in 2008.

In 1998, Warner created his first piece of food art Mushroom Savannah by using mushrooms as trees and beans and rice below as the earth. After his success with this on the internet, he began to make more elaborate works, often made to look like famous landmarks, and always made out of real food. The goal of these projects is to trick the human eye into thinking the scene is real at first glance, and Warner uses anything from fresh vegetables and fruits to bread, cheese, and sometimes meat and fish, as well as Tungsten lights in order to create the appearance of sunlight. These elaborate Foodscapes are his most popular work and he often gets hired to create them for large food production companies.

In 1985, he started assisting David Lowe, a photographer based in Knightsbridge, London. There he met advertising industry professionals such as art directors, model makers and retouchers. After a year of assisting Lowe, he set up his own studio and began creating work for advertising agencies, design groups and PR houses.

Warner attended Maidstone College of Art with the intention of becoming an illustrator. He later found photography to be his preferred medium, as it was faster and more exciting. In 1982, after a year of college he moved to the London College of Printing to complete a degree in photography, film and television.

Carl Warner (born 1963) is a British artist, director, author and photographer. Warner blends photography and art to make highly conceptual visual images. Based in London, Warner's 25-year career spans still life, advertising and photography. He is best known for his intricate food landscapes where he uses different types of foods and ingredients. He aims to inspire people to look at food in different ways. He is also known for his Bodyscapes.

Warner was born in Liverpool, England in 1963. At age seven, he moved to Kent with his parents. As a child he was inspired by artists such as Salvador Dalí and Patrick Woodroffe, and the record sleeve designs of Roger Dean and Hipgnosis.