Plein Air Artist Demonstration with Bob Upton
friday, October 3, 2025 | 12:30p - 2:30p | latsch island, wagon bridge
Plein air artist, Bob Upton, will be doing a live demonstration of his work on the Historic Wagon Bridge on Latsch Island. This demonstration is outdoors, free, and open to the public to watch or to paint along.
This plein air artist demonstration is part of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s Upper Mississippi Plein Air Experience: Boats, Bridges, and Backwaters, a weekend of workshops, exhibitions, presentations, and public programs in Winona, MN. Now in its third year, the Upper Mississippi Plein Air Experience brings together two creative communities committed to making artwork out of doors: today’s urban sketchers and traditional plein air painters. Staged from MMAM, known for its stunning location on the Mississippi River in Southeast Minnesota’s Driftless Region and a world-class art collection, the Upper Mississippi Plein Air Experience is quickly becoming the fall destination for painters and sketchers alike.
Location
Historic Wagon Bridge
Latsch Island
Old Duke Rd, Winona, MN 55987
About the artist
Bob Upton is a plein air painter who paints in oil and gouache. Bob is from St. Paul, Minnesota where he was trained in academic realism at the Atelier Lack, and with acclaimed landscape painter Joe Paquet. He has been awarded at many of the top plein air competitions around the country including, Plein Air Easton, Olmsted Plein Air, En Plein Air Texas and Laguna Plein Air Painters of America. Upton has won 15 awards in the Plein Air Salon, and was the cover artist of Plein Air Magazine in October 2014. He is also featured in the book “The Art of Plein Air Painting” by Stephen Doherty. Recently, Bob has made extended painting trips following the Mississippi River from St. Paul to St. Louis.
“My intention is to capture the uniqueness of that single day on canvas, as the French painter Corot said ‘Never lose the first impression which has moved you’” Bob Upton Fine Art
