think a collection is alive, and it’s important that it’s alive.” James Mackie sits on a comfortable patterned sofa, a grandfather clock ticking metronomically to his left. Behind him a bookcase is surmounted with an 18th century pediment topped off with a painted bust of Apollo, which he lovingly refers to as “Victorian kitsch”. “I trained as a print specialist when I began my career at Bonhams,” he says. “Then I ran the print department at Sotheby’s before moving to the Impressionist and Modern Art department. So prints really are my first love.” James now works as an interior designer and art consultant and is based in the Cotswolds, where he shares a cottage with his
