Linda's flight of fancy takes off

A HUGE ever-expanding art work based on the shifting forms of the sea and sky is starting to take shape at an exhibition, called High Tide: Low Tide, in Newhaven.

Over the coming weeks visitors will be able to watch an installation piece by Seaford artist Linda Gordon grow and change.

Previous work by Linda has featured an installation at a vacant shop in Seaford where 1,000 cuttlefish were suspended from the ceiling and a work called Voyage in Newhaven where people were invited to walk through a darkened room hung with giant strips of polythene.

This time she has made 100 laminated paper sea creatures which will fly through the Chapel Arts Centre

She has built four large frame works with netting stretched across and used a pulley system to hoist up the creatures which will be suspended from blue nylon fishing line.

Linda, who lived in the Seaford and Newhaven area for 30 years, said: 'The flying shapes are based on the ebb and flow of the sea and the flight of the gulls very much part of what it means to live in Newhaven.'

Photographer John Holloway will also be displaying his pictures of the Newhaven and French coast at the exhibition.

He said: 'I decided to go over to France for few days and look at parts of the French coast and tried to find parallels with things in the Newhaven area, like its anglers and white cliffs.'

The exhibition will continue at the Chapel Arts Centre, Meeching Place, Church Hill, from tomorrow (Saturday) to September 21, Wednesday to Sunday, 11am-5pm.