Obiter doffs its metaphorical cap to south-east firm DMH, which recently received a special commendation in the arts, business and SME category at this year's Arts & Business national awards.

DMH has a new exhibition every eight weeks at its Brighton and Crawley offices and nobly allows the great unwashed, the general public, in to have a look.

But what really caught the eye was this painting from head of commercial Simon Bellm at the firm's arts club.

Providing an appropriate title for his latest work does not come easy - 'The Red Worms Attack the Yellow Worms' is perhaps a bit too obvious.

It is hard to know where Bellm's inspiration comes from.

If he worked in the private-client department, it could perhaps have been Damien Hirst's 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living'.

If he'd been a family lawyer, it might have been Tracy Emin's 'Everyone I Have Ever Slept With'.

As he is in the commercial department, maybe we should see traces of Hogarth in his work.

Readers will appreciate that it is hard to pigeonhole such a rare talent.

(This article referst to images that appear in the printed edition, see [2004] Gazette, 11 March, page 10)