A creative barista from Hartley Farm Shop and Cafe, in Winsley, is competing in the UK Latte Art Championship in London today.

Matt Woolley, 23, from Winsley, has worked at the cafe since it opened in 2008 and will compete in the competition, held as part of the UK Barista Championships at The London Coffee Festival, which runs until Sunday.

Mr Woolley said: “I am pretty confident. I have been practising after work on the machine that will be used in the competition.”

He will have a total of six minutes to produce four designs and if successful will go on to create patterns on two macchiatos, two cappuccinos and two signature patterns, where tools can be used for etching, all within eight minutes.

Mr Woolley, who said he never liked art at school, will be judged on the visual appeal alongside the technical skill and flavour.

He said: “We have new customers that come in who love it.

“It gives us something over the chain cafes and I think people are slowly coming round to good coffee.”

Tom Bowles, manager of Hartley Farm Shop and Café, said: “It is quite unusual to find this level of talent and creativity at a farm shop café – it is normally the preserve of city coffee houses.”

Mr Woolley, a former pupil at St Laurence School, Bradford on Avon, was trained by Easy Jose Coffee, a coffee supplier, who suggested the competition to him last year – but he was struck down with appendicitis the week before and could not compete.

The winner will go on to represent the UK in the World Latte Art Championship in Nice, France, in June.