Gene Wright

Gene Wright is Art Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art where he served as Area Chair of the BFA degree program in Scientific Illustration. Gene earned his BFA in Scientific Illustration from the University of Georgia in 1986, and his Master's Degree in Medical Illustration from the Medical College of Georgia in 1990.

Having great appreciation of the outdoors, Gene is an advocate of sustainability, reuse of our natural resources and has a desire to waste nothing. He enjoys painting, sculpture and has now developed an appreciation of working in wood. He has a unique vision in the use of what nature has to offer as each art piece is created from wood that was provided by fallen trees and limbs or by reused lumber from home renovations.

Through his travels in the United States, Italy, Costa Rica and India he has developed a unique eye for an original aesthetic that he employs in each of his artworks. He also enjoys painting in watercolor, pen and ink illustration, carving in wood and stone, and spending time with his wife Allison and their twin sons, Lucas and Scholl.