Pizza portraits are a tasty twist on classic artworks

Claude Monet’s famous 1903 painting The Houses of Parliament, Sunset.

Art lovers have been given a tasty treat as some of their favourite paintings have been recreated – on pizzas.

The unusual Love Your Summer collection is the work of celebrated food artist Prudence Staite.

She has recreated some of the art world’s most beloved paintings on dough including Sunflowers by Vincent van Gough, Edvard Munch’s The Scream and Oh Jeff I love You Too But by Roy Lichtenstein.

Her pizza portraits were commissioned by PizzaExpress.

Prudence, 33, who is based in Gloucestershire, says: “I create the face freehand, working from photos.

“First of all, I’ll usually make a pencil sketch on paper. Then I draw the design onto the pizza base with tomato puree.”

Then the trickiest part: filling the large spaces with, say, ham or chicken, and leaving small patches of the tomato sauce underneath to pick out the facial details.

She only uses ingredients you’d find at a pizza restaurant — and she tries not to mix flavours that don’t go together.

Although she adds: “My Kate Middleton must have more than 100 olives in her hair.

“And with all those anchovies, too, it would probably be very salty.”