A sleeping dragon lies submerged in the Sussex Downs after a group of mothers and students manipulated nature into art.

The 100ft long creature is made from carved parts of fallen trees, has chalk teeth and features moss and coppiced branches at other points of its body.

It is hidden among the woods at Stanmer Park, near Brighton and is the result of the third Arts on the Downs project.

Moulsecoomb Mums and Brighton University students toiled for four days to create the masterpiece, which can be found five minutes up a track from the Upper Lodges, which they hope will become a permanent feature of the landscape and attract wildlife to live inside it.

Last year the outdoor project created The Saddlescombe Spiral, a celtic shape made from chalk, and the year before a 50ft giant was made from logs at Newtimber Holt, north of Brighton.