Hollie Rickard

Hollie works in Marketing and Administration at Secure Forests CIC, having joined the team in March 2026 following a period of freelance marketing work with the organisation. With five years of experience working in various roles across Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, she has developed a strong connection to the landscape and an understanding of the communities and organisations surrounding it.

She graduated from Leeds Beckett University with First-Class Honours in Fine Art and continues to practise as an oil painter. In 2025, she represented Leeds School of Arts as one of nine finalists in the international WSA Painting Prize, exhibiting her work at The Winchester Gallery.

Alongside her role at Secure Forests, Hollie volunteers as Membership Secretary for the Friends of Mount Edgcumbe, supporting the charity’s work to raise funds for the conservation and enhancement of the Park. Her creative background and longstanding involvement with Mount Edgcumbe inform her approach to communications, visual storytelling and promoting the relationship between people, nature and place.