Jim EdwardsStudio Gallery

Jim Edwards opened his studio gallery on Lime Street in Ouseburn in August 2015, combining a working painting studio with a space to show and sell his finished pieces. Edwards paints the bridges and buildings of the North East, working from memory and imagination rather than directly from photographs, and the gallery holds both original paintings and limited-edition prints of recurring subjects such as the Tyne bridges. Visitors can usually see him at work at the easel during opening hours, since the studio and gallery share the same room rather than being separated into a front-of-house display area. The gallery sits among the cluster of artist studios in Ouseburn's Lime Street building, close to the Biscuit Factory, and operates as a single artist-run space rather than a commercial gallery representing multiple makers.