Fancy a little bite to eat?

Two artists have carved success out of making as little as possible - fashioning pinhead-sized grapes and a kitchen knife you could pick your teeth with.

Charlotte and Martin Willmott spend their days creating tiny pine-apples, complete with 35 individual leaves, or tackling their latest bugbear - string onions.

'It's getting that texture right, with the very faint stripe they've got in them and the roots,' said 54-year-old Mrs Willmott.

The pair, who have no formal sculpture training, craft their work from polymer clay, which is then fired in their domestic oven before being hand painted. Their farmhouse table laden with produce goes for £85 and a mini Atlantic salmon for £45.

The couple, from Ipswich, caught the bug 30 years ago after reading about a man who made 1/12 scale chairs.

'They were just perfect. We were fascinated,' added former insurance specialist Mrs Willmott.

Husband Martin, 63, finally plucked up the courage to leave his job as an art teacher in 1991. They now sell their creations to collectors at miniature fairs across the country.