[1] 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.
[3] She also exhibited with the New English Art Club, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Society of Women Artists.
[3] Waters lived in London but continued to visit Cornwall on a regular basis and eventually moved to Lelant in the county.
[1] Waters was a frequent visitor to both France and Italy and became interested in fresco techniques early in her artistic career.
[6] Meeting Ben Nicholson in Cornwall led Waters to experiment with abstraction, but the majority of her works are realistic and representational.