Billie Waters

Phyllis Mary Waters (6 April 1896 – 1979), known as Billie Waters was a British artist.

Biography Waters was born in Richmond, Surrey and studied art at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and then at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. From 1926 to 1931 she lived in Newlyn, Cornwall and studied with the artists Ernest Procter and Harold Harvey at their art school for some time. For a period Waters worked as an apprentice to Proctor and learnt several techniques from him.

Waters first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1928 and showed there annually throughout her working life. In 1933, she had her first solo exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. Meeting Ben Nicholson in Cornwall led Waters to experiment with abstraction, but the majority of her works are realistic and representational.