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I knew I wanted to be an artist when I first picked up a crayon. I took classes during high school at Otis and Chouinard Art Institutes in Los Angeles, studying with artists Robert Irwin and Don Graham. As an art major at the University of Arizona and Mexico City College, I studied painting, sculpture and printmaking. When I moved to San Francisco, I studied with Wally Hedrick at the San Francisco Art Institute. I spent a summer painting at the Provincetown Workshop on Cape Cod.
New York City was the place to be in the 1960s. I moved there and enrolled at the Art Students League, then the School of Visual Arts, Hunter College and the New School for Social Research. I was admitted to the Graduate Program in the Arts at Columbia University. With Nicholas Carone as my advisor, I produced a body of artwork for my Master's Thesis show. My name was Sally Arnold Wilson when I received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia in 1963. After graduation, I taught in the New York City Community Colleges and at the Brooklyn Museum Education Department and continued to paint.
I was married in New York in 1969 and, after our daughter was born, I continued to paint. We moved to the Central Coast of California in 1977. I taught art through the UCLA Extension program, Artsreach, and Cuesta College Community Education.
I worked in many art media, paper making, fiber arts, sculpture and printmaking, but I have always returned to drawing and painting. My artwork has been exhibited in solo shows-"Ulmago" at the San Luis Obispo Art Center and "Configurations" at the Cal Poly University Gallery-and in galleries and private collections.