It was wonderful to have my design selected to take part in the Tortoise takeover public art trail in Jersey this summer. My design was called “Puffling”, the name for a baby Puffin, and I was so delighted it raised £21, 000 at the auction for the charity! Puffins are iconic in Jersey, the tiny colourful quirky little seabirds that arrive on the North coast of the island every summer to nest and hatch their young. Sadly they are now critically endangered, in 2022 only 4 pairs of Puffins arrived to nest, a huge decline from previous years. I wanted to highlight this by painting 8 puffins on the shell of my tortoise sculpture, the total number seen in Jersey last year, showing just how much the puffin population has declined.