In the summers, alongside my printmaking, I work as Seabird Ecologist for the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust. Scilly supports a wonderfully rich and diverse assemblage of seabirds and I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in monitoring their numbers and breeding success here for over 20 years. A key project that I have been part of in recent years, is the world-renowned Seabird Recovery Project; a partnership endeavour to protect the seabirds in Scilly by removing rats from St Agnes and Gugh. To record the subsequent return and successful breeding of burrow-nesting storm petrel and Manx shearwater has been a joy. Many of my artwork inspirations are gained when out in the field, jumping on and off the outer rocks and islets counting these birds.