Ursula Wright grew up and was educated in Switzerland. Together with her husband, an American Air Force officer, and two daughters, she lived in France, Germany and Italy for ten years. There she had the opportunity to visit and study many historic sites, museums and galleries. Upon returning to the Unites States, she continued formal studies in Art History and Classics at George Washington University. Upon her husband Philip’s retirement from the service, they studied and worked in Washington D.C. A museum curatorship in Connecticut brought them to New England, where they settled in Portsmouth. Here they both worked in the museum and preservation fields and restored an old house in the South End.

Continuing her studies at UNH and at Sanctuary Arts with Dewitt Hardy and Tom Glover, as well as in the studio of Pamela DuLong Williams. Ursula began exhibiting as a member of the New Hampshsire Art Association and the annual members’ show of the Portsmouth Athenaeum.