[2] Wilson has acted in numerous productions with the Glasgow University Dramatic Society, playing leading roles in Lysistrata, Strindberg's The Stronger, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.
As the Society's president, she ran a small theatre company and took productions to both the Edinburgh and Student Drama Festivals.
In 1993, Wilson co-wrote and performed "The Story of Robert Burns", a programme of songs, verse and anecdotes about the Scottish poet.
In 1994 she wrote and performed "The Young Pretender," the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and took this production to the Borders Festival in Scotland in October 1995 with her daughter.
[5] Wilson took up painting and studied at Camden Arts Centre[6] where she remained off and on for ten years.