Second Hand
An exhibition of four artists working with inherited and discarded materials.
Celia Pym, Tilly Shiner, Jane Stewart, and Shane Waltener.
Thursday 2nd April - Saturday 30th May. 2026.

Second Hand brings together four artists who work with materials that have lived other lives. Working with garments, textiles, and found objects, each artist uses what is worn, handled, discarded, and redistributed.

Using sculpture, textile, and collage, the artists in our Second Hand exhibition work with old materials to create new artworks, experimenting with techniques passed down through generations. Clothes are mended, reworked, and reassembled; objects are recreated rather than discarded.

One Work Gallery: Linda Adcock
‘White Still Life’, Oil on Canvas
Wednesday 22nd April
Artist Talk 2.30pm
Free. All welcome.

Our next artist is Linda Adcock who trained at Sir John Cass School of Art (1968-9); Canterbury School of Art (1969-72) and the Royal Academy Schools (1973-76). She has shown in London, Germany and Florence and, since living in Colchester, widely in East Anglia, often the RA Schools East Anglia Group and the Colchester Art Society. Linda Adcock will be showing a painting called ‘White Still Life’, and will be joining us for a conversation about the work on Wednesday, 22nd April 2.30pm.

Next One Work Gallery: Jevan Watkins Jones, Wednesday 20th May. 6.30pm

The Secret Painter
By Joe Tucker
Wednesday 13th May
Soup 6.45pm, 7pm Book Club

Joe Tucker's Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout Joe's life. A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men's club comedy routines, and appeared to exist only for daily trips to the bookie - and yet had also amassed over five hundred of his own remarkable paintings without anyone ever realising his achievements.

Towards the end of his life, Eric requested an exhibition of his work. As Joe and his family sorted through hundreds of paintings of street scenes, circus and theatre performers, and busy pubs, they began to ask more questions about Eric's life: why had this fanatically sociable man never left his mother's home? Had Eric ever experienced love when he painted it so beautifully? And what had driven him to create so much, yet share it so rarely?

Open Folk Music Session
Thursday 28th May
1pm-3pm
Free

Ray and Amanda Smith & friends are hosting a monthly open folk session for acoustic musicians and singers on the 4th Thursday of the month from 1pm - 3pm. Come and join in or sit and listen.

Folklore Circle meeting
Friday 8th May,
4pm-5.30pm
Free, All welcome.

The first Folklore Circle meet up where we discuss what the monthly gatherings could look like. With hopes to be a space of sharing folktales, exploring subjects through discussion and take a look at folk customs. Come share your ideas, wants and dreams in a friendly folkloric space. First session led by Trevor Pyne.

Sketch and Social
Saturday 9th and 23rd May
2pm-4pm, Free

Saturday Sketch and Social with Tania Lawrence @tania_lawrence_art. Bring a sketch book, pencils, pens, whatever you fancy. Grab a cuppa, then draw and chat with other creatives. It’s free, and is for all levels, from hobbyists, students, beginners, to pro doodlers. We’ll be running them every two weeks, and it's fine to drop in and out. We have pens and paper if you need them.

28 Newgate Street, Walton on the Naze, Essex, Co14 8AL