Rachel Campbell-Johnston

For 20 years, Rachel Campbell-Johnston was chief art critic for The Times newspaper. During her tenure at The Times, she was also a leader writer and obituarist. She has a PhD in poetry, she has worked for several years as a shepherd, lived in El Salvador and the Amazon rainforest and is the author of, among other things, a biography of the painter Samuel Palmer and a prize-winning young-adults book about child-soldiers and elephants. She now lives on and runs a small farm on Exmoor and writes journalism and books.