As a young aspiring artist, Obiter assumed the future would hold a light filled studio behind a cottage in the leafy creative hive of north London’s Highgate. Alas, the property market had other ideas. Fortunately, anyone in Highgate can still get their artistic fix, as the Law Society Art Group has its annual exhibition at the 400-year-old Lauderdale House until 19 June (away from the traditional venue of the Law Society’s reading room). Obiter had a sneak preview of the entries.

War in Ukraine was on the mind of Louise Sweet for her busy and enigmatic painting ‘Lviv’. Ruth Munby’s ‘Ukraine’ is a simple and effective print of people under threat (Obiter also likes her work ‘Up the castle’). Some enigmatic landscapes with a weathered appearance also appeal – Duaa Izzidien’s ‘Safe haven’ and Sarah McDougall Duncan’s ‘Argyll’. We also like the use of colour in Clive Sayer’s ‘Take the gentle path’. Pey Kan Su’s lively and distorted perspectives are always a joy, and ‘The Magic Flute’, a theatre and stage, deserves a mention. Hanna Ihsan’s painting ‘A London view – the Old Bailey’, Obiter suspects, was made possible by access to the upper floors of a City law firm.

Flower drawings are a bit of a theme this year. Examples include Jennifer Tovey’s ‘Still life’ and William MacKenzie’s ‘Flowers in a basket’. Obiter’s favourite work this year is Rosemary Millar’s ‘Spring colour’, a loose vibrant watercolour wash overlaid with nicely drawn details of flowers and leaves.

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