Artist portraits take the biscuit

AN ARTIST has used more than 1,000 biscuits to depict famous “British icons” to mark the 100th anniversary of the chocolate digestive.

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Mosaic artist Ed Chapman, who previously created large portraits of actor Michael Caine and comedy duo Laurel and Hardy using coins, spent 180 hours completing three portraits of famous British people using McVitie's digestive biscuit range.

Mr Chapman made biscuit portraits of singer David Bowie, journalist and newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald and actress Dame Judi Dench to mark 100 years of McVitie's chocolate digestive after they were voted as “icons” by the general public.