Jayne Wilson, from Hanover, Brighton, was artist-in-residence during the £30 million restoration of the Dome and Corn Exchange.

During this time she hung around on site as the builders went about their work and she made extensive sketches, capturing the action that would ultimately transform the Dome.

Wilson came to Brighton to attend a post-graduate course at Brighton University and has since worked on several projects that document building work in progress.

She has been artist-in-residence with the British Medical Association, a Sainsbury's supermarket and the enormous Ford motor works in Dagenham.

She finds such activity more inspiring than working in a studio.

For Wilson, celebrating the people that brought about the Dome's change was of utmost importance.

"I love the spontaneity of working on site and working quickly. It's a challenge to capture the moment.

"I was there from the beginning, in September 1999, and when the work was extended we decided I should be there until the end."

On show in Brighton Museum are two large-scale mono-prints consisting of various sketches, extracts of overheard conversations from the builders, instructions on how to work machinery and lines from songs they sang as they worked.

In these prints Wilson has joined the different elements that struck her. "There are a lot of layers and people respond to different aspects of the work."

Three prints of portraits are also on show and those sketched seem to have been taken with the images.

"It was great getting to know the builders and some of the steel workers bought copies of the work."

A highlight for Wilson was the work on the roof.

"Watching them take away the old roof around the dome and then lower the new roof was amazing.

"Seeing it from above, watching it all come together, the angles and everything were really interesting."

Find more of Wilson's images on the Dome web site, www.brighton-dome.org.uk