A BRITISH artist has followed in the footsteps of Andy Warhol by using a well-known kitchen brand name to create a work of art.

Paul Birdsall has crafted four sculptures using nothing but Oxo cubes.

The crumbly brown cubes, the silver foil they come wrapped in and the outer cardboard packaging are the only materials the 27-year-old has used to sculpt champagne and wine bottles, a Christmas pudding, a robot and a teddy bear.

Mr Birdsall shaped the small square cubes, which come in three shades of brown depending on the flavour, into a teddy bear wrapped in foil, and used the square cardboard boxes the cubes come in to build a robot.

Mr Birdsall, from Newcastle, came up with the idea for his creations as he was crumbling an Oxo cube while cooking.

He said: ''It was when sprinkling an Oxo cube one day that I thought what a great consistency the product had.

''I am always sourcing alternative materials with which to create things, so I got working, but what began as a bit of a play around then became an obsession."

In the 1960s, artist Andy Warhol turned 32 Campbell's soup cans into art.

The figures will be displayed at the Campbell's headquarters, which owns Oxo.