
Ep. 31 Shipping Brow & Jim Osborne March 25
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What’s bright blue, lives on the harbourside in Maryport andonce was a pub called the Queens Head ?
The answer is Shipping Brow Gallery, now just over a yearold and very much now a local landmark. The building had been home to Maryport Maritime Museum since 1975 but a new lease of life dreamt up by Dolly and Brian Money has seen it turned into an art gallery with both permanent and temporary exhibitions.
Painter Jim Osborne became its second ever artist in residence in September. His new group exhibition, along with Cockermouth printmaker Jack Fawdry-Tatham and Keswick painter Celia Burbush, called Tales from Elsewhere, takes place this March.
Tom Speight has been along to find out what makes theGallery - and Jim and his paintbrushes - tick….