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​Teen In Wetherspoon Pub Creates 'Mayo Lisa' And ‘Frida Ketchup’ Out Of Condiments

​Teen In Wetherspoon Pub Creates 'Mayo Lisa' And ‘Frida Ketchup’ Out Of Condiments

Molly Napier-Doyle had been enjoying some food and a few cocktails with friends at their local Wetherspoons when she decided to get creative

Jess Hardiman

Jess Hardiman

Our world is home to some seriously creative people, from Michelin-starred chefs and groundbreaking filmmakers through to plastic surgeons who can transplant an entire face onto somebody else's head.

But then there's this teenager, who managed to create a work of art out of her condiments at Wetherspoon's.

Molly Napier-Doyle, 18, had been enjoying some food and a few cocktails with friends at their local Spoons on Holloway Road, London, when she started playing around with her leftovers.

Using a palette of ketchup, mayonnaise, brown sauce and mustard, Molly swapped her paintbrush for a wet paper straw to recreate some iconic works of art.

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Her recreation of the Mona Lisa saw mayonnaise and mustard swirled together for skin, with ketchup and brown sauce used for hair.

Molly's portrait of her idol, Frida Kahlo, meanwhile, was also garnished using leftover limes, tomatoes and lettuce leaves to mimic the Mexican artist's iconic hair flowers and jewellery.

Molly, who is from Bolton in Greater Manchester but now lives in London, said: "It was just a whim - I was having fun with my friends in a Wetherspoon's and thought it would be funny for the waiters to see that when they came to collect the plates.

"Frida Kahlo is a face I'm very familiar with because I paint her a lot and I thought that would be a fun one for me. Frida Kahlo is definitely one of my favourite painters.

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"I know that the Mona Lisa is such an icon and because Da Vinci is such an old master, I thought it would be funny if it were re-done out of ketchup.

"The Mona Lisa is such an icon I thought it would be funny if it were re-created out of sauce.

"Once a week, since college is stressful, we think it's fun if we sit in Wetherspoon's and order a burger and a couple of cocktails and chill there for an hour before going home.

"Everybody was just chatting and I didn't really know what to talk about so I distracted myself with the paintings.

"My friend had a lot of burger leftovers and I thought it would be fun to do something with it.

"I've done a lot of studies of both of those painters but I'd never done them in food before.

"I was using a wet paper straw and I thought that I could paint with that. And I did, although using the straw was really difficult.

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"It kept unravelling and I had to use new wet straws that my friends had finished with. It was really stiff and soggy to paint with.

"My friends were just laughing and supporting it. They are all painters as well and they think what I did is really cool.

"One of the servers who took it away thought it was cool as well.

"She was saying the kitchen staff were taking photos of it. People thought it was cool, I guess, and it's awesome because it wasn't really meant to be anything serious.

"I think it was a different experience painting in food. It was quite difficult and it wasn't something I'd planned."

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Molly, who has been a student at the Royal Drawing School for nearly 10 years and studies at City and Islington College, said her Mayo Lisa and Frida Ketchup could just be the beginning.

She continued: "I will definitely do more in the future because it was so much fun.

"Frida Kahlo inspires me a lot. She's just great. I like her style. I really like that her paintings seem to be a diary of her life and she was so unwell and yet her paintings seem to be so strong.

"You can see that in her paintings - that she was going through a lot of pain and yet she was still attending rallies up until the last few days of her life.

"I've painted the Mona Lisa before. I know she's an icon in the world of art but I think she's actually got quite an easy face to paint. It's blocks of light.

"That's also why I chose that one, because I thought it would be an easy and impressive thing to do since it's so famous but so simple.

"I think I might choose something a bit more elaborate next time, like Van Dyck. He does quite full and theatrical paintings.

"I think it would be funnier, since it's so detailed, if I just did a big plate filled with cherubs and light beams and thorns and stuff.

"I guess I could specialise in food art in the future. Art is such a vast thing and I don't know what I want to do to.

"I guess if food art is something that stimulates me then that's what I will go into. I'm going to follow what people respond to.

"I'm getting a lot of good feedback from this so it's definitely opening up an opportunity."

Eddie Gershon, a spokesman for Wetherspoon, said: "Both pieces of art are superb and definitely one-offs. The distinctive Wetherspoon plates are the perfect backdrop for the artwork."

Molly claims that the chefs were so impressed by her art that they even sent her a fruit yoyo to say thanks. D'aww.

What next? The Scream-ing Hot Chilli Sauce?

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Topics: Food, UK News, Awesome, News, Wetherspoons, UK