Alice Buxton Winnicott was born Alice Buxton Taylor in Claverdon, Warwickshire, England on 4 November 1891 and studied at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1912 to 1915. The outbreak of World War One interrupted her studies and she spent the years 1916 to 1921 as a junior assistant in the Metallurgy Department of the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Middlesex where she investigated the material properties of ceramics and glass, testing how they behaved under pressure and high temperature.

After leaving the NPL in 1921 she decided to pursue a career as an artist and subsequently trained as a painter, sculptor and potter at Richmond School of Art, Kingston, School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art, and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and St Johns Wood School of Art in London.

In 1923 she married Donald Woods Winnicott (1896–1971). a physician and psychotherapist

In 1938 she purchased Upchurch Pottery in Upchurch which ran until 1953 when she sold it to Edward Baker who had worked at the pottery since 1913. During her time at the pottery she introduced the Claverdon range of tableware and decorative items.

Between 1933 and 1937 she exhibited in the Royal Academy and Society of Women Artists in London; the Royal Cambrian Academy in Conwy, Wales. She also showed her work in the South Wales Art Society 50th Anniversary Exhibition in 1938. She was instrumental in the foundation of several art groups including the New Kingston Group of painters in 1928. During World War Two she worked as a volunteer art therapist at Mill Hill Emergency Hospital in London.

She lived in Hampstead, London for several years and following her divorce from Donald Winnicott in 1949 moved to Wargrave, Berkshire and later to Gilfachrheda Farm in New Quay, Dyfedd, Wales where she retained a studio and kiln. She died in New Quay, Dyfedd, Wales on 19 November 1969.

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