Our new project is titled ‘Embrace’ and it is informed by the work of the artist Antonia Showering, whose work we looked at towards the end of last term. My intention around the project is to bring more figurative painting into our thinking and our approach to painting. So the project can be interpreted as broadly as you wish from a handshake to a kiss and any form of embrace can be used as a starting point for the picture. The background can be an imaginative invention of a