Obiter likes to dab at a canvas when time allows, and the effect is so much better when one paints from life. From its annual exhibition (showing in the reading room, 113 Chancery Lane to 20 January), it would seem that members of The Law Society’s Art Group also tend to draw what they know.

Witness for example the gritty realism of Diana Brahams’ ‘Reflecting: Portrait of a Man in Suit and Tie’.

Meanwhile, lawyers at Clifford Chance, Citigroup and Barclays might locate their nearest window in I A Bax’s ‘London City Airport’.

And SJ Berwin, Baker & McKenzie, Lawrence Graham and Norton Rose may make out their places of work in two of Grace Impey’s oil silhouettes (‘The City’ and ‘Southwark Bridge’, pictured).

Sadly Obiter couldn’t locate lot 45 from the catalogue, Peter Haycroft’s ‘Hot Girls’, but hopes that Tom Butler got to down the subject of his ‘St Emilion - Premier Cru’ while the paint dried.