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Welcome to
Alison Waters Art

Hand Built Ceramics 

ARTS FOR WELLBEING 

I am a mixed media artist working from GRIT Studio, Stockport where I work primarily on creating decorated, hand built ceramics. I regularly facilitate workshops in both ceramics and mixed media for several ceramic studios and also for ARC - Arts for Recovery in Stockport and Lime Arts, Manchester NHS Trust.

I have a particular interest in community and arts for well being and have many years of experience working within the SEMH educational sector. 

I find my inspiration in the environment that surrounds me; encouraging others to look closer and longer at the beauty around them whether natural or urban.

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Galleries and Exhibitions

I have my work for sale in several private galleries across the UK. I also sell at craft and ceramic fairs.

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Creative Recycling Gallery, Chorlton

Current stockist of selected "Tree Rings" range

Calgary Arts Gallery, Isle of Mull

Current stockist of "Tree Rings" range

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair (online)

November 2020

Heatons Art Trail

July 2018 - 19

Manchester Art Gallery Shop

20:22 - Identity

Stockport War Memorial Gallery

Stockport Open Exhibition 2022

Cotton On Manchester

'Landscapes'

Manchester Ceramics' Fair

Nov 2022

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair

Oct 2023

Inspire Gallery
North Yorks Moors

This Diverse Landscape
May - July 2024

Hepworth Cereamic Fair

June 2024

COLLECT ART magazine

July 2024
Front cover and article on practice

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Teaching and Workshops

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Bramall Hall

Artist in Residence

CLAY Studio, Manchester Dec 2017 - present day

Workshop Facilitator

ARC Centre, Stockport 2016 - present day

Workshop facilitator - In person and virtually

ARC Centre, Stockport 2020 - 2021

Creative instructional videos 

Lime Arts Manchester NHS Trust

Arts for Wellbeing facilitator

Poynton Pottery
Sept 2021 - Present day

Workshop Facilitator

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Alison Waters

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Landmark

OUT OF SIGHT - OUT OF MIND

Fiddlers Ferry Power Station


My Landmark collection is inspired by the recently demolished cooling towers of Fiddlers Ferry Power Station in Warrington, Cheshire. Before these gigantic landmarks were demolished, I wanted to capture them and learn from the local residents who had lived in their shadow for most of their lives. Through these conversations, I became increasingly aware of how our industrial landscape is disappearing, and how industrial landmarks can come to symbolise 'home' for people.

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Fiddlers Ferry buildings

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Bricks

Focusing on the last few remaining landmarks of the ironstone mining industry of the North Yorks Moors and tales of the miners who created and lived within its industrial landscape. This collection of stoneware bricks evokes memories of the hardship faced by the miners and features images of industry related architecture within the national park’s boundaries.

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Be Sober

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Identity

Porcelain and Stoneware vessels with sgraffito decoration

I combine my passion for drawing and hand built ceramics working in porcelain or stoneware, decorating the surface with my observations from nature.

I have a particular passion for trees and have a collection of ceramics inspired by the hauntingly beautiful felled tree stumps found at Langamull, North West Mull Community Woodland.

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Identity

Porcelain with black sgraffito
Calgary Art Gallery, Isle of Mull

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Porcelain vase

Black sgraffito tree ring decoration. Each tree ring has an individual desig; an individual identity

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Porcelain bowls

Black sgraffito tree ring decoration. Each tree ring has an individual desig; an individual identity.

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Porcelain Pinch Pots

Black sgraffito tree ring decoration. Each tree ring has an individual desig; an individual identity

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Porcelain and Found Object Spoons

Black sgraffito tree ring decoration. Each tree ring has an individual design an individual identity. Using beautiful found objects from the natural world to create decorative handles.

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Stoneware Vase

Large stoneware vase with matt white glaze and black sgraffito decoration

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Regeneration

Stoneware vessels with digital transfer decoration

Moving studios to the northern industrial town of Stockport has influenced my ceramics away from the natural to the architectural. A vintage book found on a Stockport marketplace stall boasted of Stockport being the envy of the north with its new 1960's shopping precinct and revolutionary high rise housing. As Stockport undergoes a new wave of transformation I seek to capture the town as it is before change for better or worse, happens once again.

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Big Blue Skies

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SOLD

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Centred

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FOR SALE

Over the Rooftops

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FOR SALE

Still Life Painting

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FOR SALE

Splash of Yellow

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SOLD

BLUE RECTANGLES

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FOR SALE

Windows

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Viaduct View

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FOR SALE

Lanc'ie Hill

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FOR SALE

Arches

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SOLD

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View Through a Hole

Stoneware vessels with digital transfer decoration

Inspired by the views through the iconic Alan Boysen car park screen in Stockport. Capturing the multi faceted architectural face of this northern town as it enters another phase of redevelopment.

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Dark Days

SOLD
Hand built stoneware with
digital transfer imagery

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Development

FOR SALE
Hand built stoneware with
digital transfer imagery

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Pyramid

FOR SALE
Hand built stoneware with
digital transfer imagery

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Viaduct

SOLD
Hand built stoneware with
digital transfer imagery

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Angles

FOR SALE
Hand built stoneware with digital transfer imagery and oxidised steel bar.

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Cranes

FOR SALE
Hand built stoneware with digital transfer imagery and oxidised steel bar.

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My Story

Having graduated in 2015 from Manchester School of art as a mature student with a 1st class hons degree in Creative Practice, I was at a loss - what to do next ... and so my journey with ceramics began ... CLAY studio Manchester had just opened and so I enrolled on a 6 week hand building course. 8 years later I am now at a new artist studio in Stockport - GRIT Studio and facilitating my own ceramic's workshops whilst selling my work through galleries and by commission.
Arts for Wellbeing is my passion and I regularly facilitate sessions for ARC and Lime Arts.

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Handmade Books

Etchings and screen prints

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The Pathos of Things

Inspired by Japanese imagery, this beautiful fan is decorated with screen printed images of leaf skeletons.  Delicate Japanese paper is intricately concertina folded to create the pages of this artist's book.

To the Woods

Etching of woodland illustration printed onto Japanese paper

Forest Bathing

Based on drawings of the trees in Whitworth park, this birch plywood fan screen printed and embellished with gold foil.

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Ceramics - other projects

Tree ring pinch pots
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Identity ...

Beautiful petit porcelain pinch pots. Black sgraffito decoration echoing the individual identity of every tree.

I go to the Peace of Wild Things 2

Beautiful hand coiled stoneware pot. Hand decorated with illustration of birch trees.

Langamull Tree Rings - Stoneware...

Hand built stoneware vase with hand carved and sgraffito tree ring. Inspired from the Forestry Commission land at Langamull, Isle of Mull.

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Stockport Chimneys

Contemporary hand built vase in glazed and unglazed stoneware.

3 little birds..

Hand built porcelain bowl, spot glazed on colour. Inspired by the beautiful garden birds that have been our joy and solace through the lockdown. Features colours of robin, blue tit and blackbird.

I saw a flash of black...

Hand built porcelain vase. Spot glazed on colour. Inspired by the beautiful garden birds that have been our joy and solace through the lockdown. Each vase features one bird: blackbird, robin, blue tit, great tit, sparrow.

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Workshops

Ceramics, book making, drawing and collage.

I have many years experience of teaching SEMH students and delivering art workshops to a people of all ages. I specialise in facilitating to vulnerable children and adults and encourage them to find the value in using art as a therapy.  
Workshops can be tailored to suit anyone and can be in a  variety of media from clay to paper and collage. I can deliver workshops from Cakebread Workshop or at a venue to suit the client. I am also now very confident at delivering virtual workshops over zoom.
Please feel free to message me with any queries.

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Arts for Wellbeing

Examples of workshops

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Book in a Box

Miniature book in a box created by collaging with postage stamps

STARLING INC Young persons workshop

Collaborative Large Scale Collage

Created with hand painted papers

ARC Stockport Community Programme

Exploring Mark Making

Mark making on paper and ceramic tiles

ARC Stockport SHINE Young Peoples Project

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Arts for Wellbeing

Examples of workshops

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Large Scale Collaborative Book

Large Scale book based on poem "Hope is a thing with feathers..." created by collaging hand painted papers

LIME ARTS Manchester NHS Trust

Collage and Ceramic Tiles

Hand made ceramic tiles decorated with digital transfer of collaged piece

LIME ARTS Manchester NHS Trust

Mod Roc Creative Creatues

Mod Roc sculpture

ARC Stockport SHINE Young Peoples Project

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Contact Us

07880 734891

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