Alexandra and Barbora, the girls at the café, have been getting creative with their cappuccinos. The heart stencil is a test piece for an ambitious series of works using powdered chocolate on a frothed milk surface. Their plans for the future include a series on iconic European birds (we all miss the starling, but hope he’s now arrived safely at his summer destination on the Baltic coast; the crow family might be included too) and their most daring project: a suite of tableau in homage to Rubens’s Medici cycle, currently hanging in the Louvre, Paris. This latter series will require the purchase of several cappuccinos for the full effect, but they do a loyalty card so you get the last instalment free!

Update (15-3-15): Here is number one in the Iconic European Birds series. ‘The starling’ (winter coat puffed up against the cold):