Disasters happen somewhere else. Or that's the impression given in the media. Here, however, Nina brings a disaster to Hastings. A overly exuberant plant takes hold and consumes the Victorian seafront. Familiar haunts are transformed. Nina worked on a vast scale; her piece of work was some five meters or so in length. All of this gave the impression that you could walk along the drawing passing shops and buildings drawn with intricate detail as if walking along the street itself. Nina's research was immense. She even went out in Peter Quinnell's dinghy to try to take photographs of the seafront from the sea but found that just photographing from the promenade did the trick just as well. A brave achievement.
