She and her sisters were members of the Naturalists Field Club, of which Charles Kingsley, of The Water Babies fame, was the leader.
Wimperis studied art in Antwerp and Hanover[2] and exhibited in London with the Royal Society of British Artists between 1868 and 1875.
In 1895 Wimperis also joined a painters' group led by visiting Italian artist Girolamo Nerli, called the Easel Club.
[4] Hodgkins wrote to her mother that she had found Wimperis living alone, miserable and helpless, and had recommended she move into a small hotel.
[4] When World War I broke out in 1914 Wimperis returned to Dunedin, and in 1916 moved back to England and lived in Surrey until her death on 20 June 1929.