The UK Art Fund has just started a new fundraising initiative that will hopefully raise money for museums and galleries in the British Isles, but also get people into the kitchen!

With the rise of the ‘food porn’ trend – where people take pictures of their dishes – the Art Fund’s campaign goes one step further by aiming to replicate historical and iconic masterpieces from the ingredients in your fridge.

Who needs to look at a finely sculptured duck confit when you could gaze at a De Stijl inspired slice of Battenburg cake and ponder about the reduction of the world around us to its rawest and simplest of forms?

The coordinator of the campaign, Katharine Richards, says, “We’re hoping to inspire people, through the medium of food…What could be more fun than recreating your favourite work of art out of simple ingredients you have in your fridge – which you can then eat!”

Recipes are available for a few suggested pieces such as a ‘Jackson Pollock-inspired crispy cake’, a ‘Van Gogh-inspired Ploughman’s’ and ‘Sarah Lucas-inspired gingerbread woman’ which really does take the biscuit.

Fear not though, it is said that the step-by-step guides have been created with the non-professional baker in mind. That’s lucky!

Food and art have been intertwined for centuries; it is not a recent phenomenon that has coincided with the rise of the smart-phone and Instagram:

Sir Nathaniel Bacon, the British artist, is particularly renowned for his still life kitchen and market scenes that are filled to the brim with depictions of fruit and vegetables whilst even modernist masters such as Pablo Picasso used food as inspiration.

I have never been the artistic type so I think that recreating a Hieronymus Bosch on pizza could well be a little out of my skill level.

Saying that, I could always grab a can of tomato soup à la Andy Warhol….

Photograph by Maja Smend