Another incredible piece of sand art was created on Tenby’s North Beach by Marc Treanor on?Friday to raise awareness of organ donation.
Fifty-seven-year-old Jan Lockett (pictured), an organ donation ambassador from Hereford, had the art created on her behalf.
Last Saturday marked eight years since she had her heart plant operation at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Speaking about the art, Ms. Lockett said: “I’m really over the moon with it.
“I feel very, very emotional, organ donation is the greatest gift, if it makes more people sign the register, then it’s obviously worked.
“I’m an ambassador, promoting organ donations around the country.
“Every year on my transplant birthday I write my age in the sand, so this year as it was eight years since my transplant, Marc the sand artist decided that he would like to promote it as well.
“The art features the organ donation sign in the middle and then the heartbeat around the outside.”
Ms Lockett added that in the subsequent eight years since her transplant, she had toured the UK visiting numerous beaches, including Tenby’s South Beach.
“I did it in Botany Bay and Broadstairs in Kent, Fairbourne, West Wales.
“My fourth one was in Tenby, my sixth was in Sandbanks.
“Wherever I find a nice beach that’s where I go, but I’ve not done anything as spectacular as this!” she continued.
Asked on what she would say to people who are thinking of going on the organ donation register, she said: “Sign up, you are six times more likely to need an organ, than to donate, and make sure you tell your family.
“Most people have said they are on the organ donation register and they’ve spoken to their family, that]s what the whole thing is about,” she added.