Sally works across oils, acrylics, charcoal, pastels, ink, gouache and watercolour — often in combination. She doesn’t limit herself to a single style. The practice is, at its heart, an exploration.

Much of the work plays with perception. Some pieces reward distance — shapes that are abstract or slightly surreal at close range resolve into something more defined when you step back. Others demand the opposite.

There is a recurring interest in space — in how the eye finishes a picture that the hand has deliberately left open, and in movement: animals caught mid-gesture, or ink spreading freely across a surface. The interplay of chance and intention is something Sally returns to repeatedly — the point where control loosens and something unexpected arrives.

"I enjoy the interplay of chance and intention. There's a point where you let go — and what happens next is often the most interesting thing in the work."
— Sally Wilson

This sensibility has deep roots. It was always the sketches and studies — the preparatory works artists make before the polished final piece — that spoke most powerfully to Sally. There is a movement, freedom and energy in those works that the finished version sometimes loses. A looseness that feels more alive than precision. It is this quality she pursues in her own practice: not the immaculate surface, but the breathing, still-becoming thing.