Caroline Rackham has lived and worked around the New Forest area for most of her life and grew up paddling in New Forest streams and looking for the wonderful varied wildlife that the area has to offer.
She has a deep-rooted interest in the countryside and how best that can be both shared and preserved for the future.
Caroline has spent much of her career using the arts in a community setting working on projects as diverse as using photography to improve areas of inner city deprivation, lantern processions and street art festivals to unite a community.