I am collaborating on a number of projects with the wonderful artist Jane Mackay. We co-founded Sounding Art Press, dedicated to the promotion of art, music and literature through cross-disciplinary exploration and scholarship in order to publish Jane’s evocative responses to Benjamin Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw, together with commentary, history and music examples. Her thirty-three original watercolours, one for each scene and variation of Britten’s masterpiece, met with great acclaim when first exhibited in 2004 and all were sold almost immediately, so news of this book attracted much attention before publication. This very desirable edition has been issued in two formats, Artist’s Edition (including an original watercolour) and Collector’s Edition. The book was launched in June 2007 at The Britten–Pears Library during the Aldeburgh Festival. The distribution of this title is now administered by Boydell & Brewer.
I am also compiling Jane’s catalogue raisonné, a major project which entails tracking down almost two thousand pictures in collections worldwide.