Obiter has noted a tendency among lawyer friends to find an artistic outlet in painting a certain kind of, shall we say, very nice watercolour of flowers/trees/ivy/chateaux (or all four). Utterly luffley and all that, and we all have to start somewhere.

But our attention has been drawn to something possibly even better - Cobham solicitor Nimal Jayawardhena’s more elemental and minimalist sculpture of headless archer Drona in soft steel, from the Indian epic Mahabharata. In the tale, a warrior is searching for his son’s soul. As ever in matters of artistic good taste, Obiter is in fine company - the organisers of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition have selected it from 11,000 works submitted for the show, which runs until 12 August. Drona carries a £1,000 price tag, and, if it sells, Jayawardhena has pledged his 70% share to Action for Addiction, a charity supported by the Duchess of Cambridge.

Obiter is in the process of trying to sell a few pastoral scenes of the Dordogne to raise the cash to buy it - though we’d expect one of our readers to get there first.