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Contemporary and Country present art and the handmade by established artists and makers based in the east of England in pop-up exhibitions held in non-gallery spaces celebrating rural surroundings.

27/05/2026

Viewing Room 09 "Our Watery World" ends this coming Saturday 30 May. We are showing a collection of paintings by Norfolk based artist Claire Cansick who studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, graduating in 1996. Her work is deeply rooted in the natural world, offering a form of escape from the urban environment in which she grew up. We have set these alongside the ceramic sculptural work of James Evans Both approach making as a process of discovery rather than control, allowing form, surface, and atmosphere to emerge through intuition and response.

WOOLMARKET HOUSE
6 ST NICHOLAS STREET, PE30 1LY

OPEN
Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm
Saturdays: 11am to 2pm
and at other times by appointment

MORE: https://www.contemporaryandcountry.com/

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Our current exhibition is specially open tomorrow Tuesday 26 May for our "Meet the Artist" event: Viewing Room 09 "Our W...
25/05/2026

Our current exhibition is specially open tomorrow Tuesday 26 May for our "Meet the Artist" event: Viewing Room 09 "Our Watery World" at Woolmarket House in King's Lynn. Norfolk based painter Claire Cansick will be here from 1.30pm onwards. She studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, graduating in 1996. Her work is deeply rooted in the natural world, offering a form of escape from the urban environment in which she grew up. Through painting, she maps an emotional and psychological journey, drawing on the landscapes of land and sea. Claire's paintings are being shown alongside ceramic sculpture by James Evans.

Read more about them in a new blog on our website

C&C VIEWING ROOM - WOOLMARKET HOUSE
6 ST NICHOLAS STREET, KING'S LYNN PE30 1LY

OPEN
Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm
Saturdays: 11am to 2pm
and at other times by appointment

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MEET THE ARTISTS AT WOOLMARKET HOUSEThere are opportunities to meet with ceramic sculptor, James Evans on successive Sat...
21/05/2026

MEET THE ARTISTS AT WOOLMARKET HOUSE
There are opportunities to meet with ceramic sculptor, James Evans on successive Saturdays up until the end of this exhibition on 30 May. Claire Cansick will be at Woolmarket House to talk about her paintings on Tuesday 26 May from 2pm onwards

Please DM or email [email protected] to book a place as space will be limited.

WOOLMARKET HOUSE
6 ST NICHOLAS STREET, KING'S LYNN, PE30 1LY

FREE ENTRY
Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 4pm
and at other times by appointment

MORE: https://www.contemporaryandcountry.com/

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18/05/2026

Viewing Room 09 opens again this week. Our Watery World is showing a collection of paintings by Norfolk based artist Claire Cansick looking at our relationship with the natural—especially aquatic—world.
Claire Cansick studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, graduating in 1996. Her work is deeply rooted in the natural world, offering a form of escape from the urban environment in which she grew up. Through painting, she maps an emotional and psychological journey, drawing on the landscapes of land and sea.
You can meet with Claire Cansick at Woolmarket House on Tuesday 26 May - from 2pm. Just let us know you are planning to be here as we are opening the space for this event.

Shown alongside the ceramic sculptural work of James Evans Both approach making as a process of discovery rather than control, allowing form, surface, and atmosphere to emerge through intuition and response.

WOOLMARKET HOUSE
6 ST NICHOLAS STREET, PE30 1LY

OPEN
Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm
Saturdays: 11am to 2pm
and at other times by appointment

MORE: https://www.contemporaryandcountry.com/

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17/05/2026

Our current exhibition brings together the work of James Evans and Claire Cansick, two artists whose practices are grounded in a close dialogue with material, landscape, and transformation. Though working across different media, both approach making as a process of discovery rather than control, allowing form, surface, and atmosphere to emerge through intuition and response.

You can meet with James and Claire at special events being held at Woolmarket House this May. Meet James on successive Saturdays until the end of this exhibition in 30 May.

James Evans’ ceramic sculptures occupy a space between object and organism. Built through negotiation with clay itself, his forms resist fixed interpretation, appearing at once bodily, architectural, and archaeological. Their heavily worked surfaces, fluid glazes, and high-fired textures carry a sense of compression and movement, recalling both historical ceramics and naturally eroded forms. His work invites a physical encounter — a slow, tactile kind of looking shaped by weight, surface, and proximity.

WOOLMARKET HOUSE
6 ST NICHOLAS STREET, PE30 1LY

OPEN
Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm
Saturdays: 11am to 2pm
and at other times by appointment

MORE: https://www.contemporaryandcountry.com/

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16/05/2026

Viewing Room 09 showcasing paintings by Claire Cansick and ceramics James Evans. Two artists and two very different materials—but both exploring tension, transformation, and the emotional pull of nature. This work represents a conversation between sea and earth, control and surrender, surface and depth.

Contemporary and Country at WOOLMARKET HOUSE
6 ST NICHOLAS STREET, PE30 1LY

OPEN
Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm
Saturdays: 11am to 2pm
and at other times by appointment

MORE: https://www.contemporaryandcountry.com/

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Opening soon at Salthouse Church : AsteroideaJune 21 – July 5Open Daily 10 am – 5.30 pmSundays 11 am – 5.30 pmOver 20 ye...
15/05/2026

Opening soon at Salthouse Church : Asteroidea

June 21 – July 5
Open Daily 10 am – 5.30 pm
Sundays 11 am – 5.30 pm

Over 20 years after artists Liz McGowan and Margie Britz made Asteroidea—a seven-foot-diameter starfish— is returning to Salthouse Church where it will hang in front of the east window. These sea creatures have been taken from the depths of the sea and thrown up into the sky as a constellation. Evolving from and revolving around Asteroidea we are offering a series of events - see more in our latest blog.

IN FURTHER NEWS: Liz McGowan will be showing recent work in her "Complicity" series at Woolmarket House from 3 June to 4 July.

ON NOW AT WOOLMARKET HOUSE - until 30 May
New work by painter Claire Cansick and ceramic sculptor James Evans will be brought together to explore our watery world in this latest exhibition

6 St Nicholas Street, King's Lynn, PE30 1LY

OPEN
Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm
Saturdays: 11am to 2pm

MORE: https://www.contemporaryandcountry.com/

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MEET THE ARTISTS AT WOOLMARKET HOUSEThere are opportunities to meet with ceramic sculptor, James Evans on successive Sat...
13/05/2026

MEET THE ARTISTS AT WOOLMARKET HOUSE
There are opportunities to meet with ceramic sculptor, James Evans on successive Saturdays up until the end of this exhibition on 30 May. Claire Cansick will be at Woolmarket House to talk about her paintings on Tuesday 26 May from 2pm onwards

Please DM or email [email protected] to book a place as space will be limited.

WOOLMARKET HOUSE
6 ST NICHOLAS STREET, KING'S LYNN, PE30 1LY

FREE ENTRY
Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 4pm
and at other times by appointment

MORE: https://www.contemporaryandcountry.com/

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Woolmarket House, 6 St Nicholas Street
King's Lynn
PE301LY

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