[4] She has lived most of her life in the small farming community of Waikuku in North Canterbury, near Pegasus Bay.
[2] Her physical environment has played a strong role in her art, providing the materials she works with: wool, river stones, bark, beach pebbles, shells and driftwood.
[2] Early in her life Wilson began 'wandering around and picking things up', and the items she collects in this way make their way into her art.
[4] She says:'The work is about contrast, putting organic materials in an art gallery space – I feel it makes a much stronger statement, it could be called an interruption.
[2][6] In 1994 she was commissioned to make a permanent outdoor work, Two Craters, for the Krakamarken nature art park in Randers, Denmark.