Sheila Bergman
I’m dabbler, moving from one medium and environment to the next, sometimes away from art for years at a time. Plein air is a favorite for me though.
Ritamarie Balcerzak
I use various inks to develop my images which are usually abstract but based on natural settings . I really like the plein air. experience. Port Wing is a great setting for artistic inspiration. I look forward to attending again this year. My Instagram site is @ceeceezak.
Pete Border
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Patricia Canelake
Patricia Canelake lives and works in Knife River, Minnesota near the North Shore of Lake Superior. Simple figurative and animal subjects, leashed and unleashed, are the focus of her work. Her style of painting is a fine balance between storytelling and the rough elegance of form and color. She will be returning to Plein Air painting during the Port Wing event.
She was awarded two McKnight Foundation Fellowships, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, The Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Fellowships, and Arrowhead Regional Arts Council awards. She was included in the 2015 Minnesota Biennial Exhibition at the Museum of Minnesota Art. Her work is in permanent collections and at the Tweed Museum of Art and The Department of the Interior, United States.
John Dehaven
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Mike Enz
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Pamela Enz
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Gretchen Burke
I enjoy pastel painting pleinair as well as in the studio with a pastel group that meets in Washburn. My work has been in many local galleries as well as in our local CBAC shows. My inspiration comes from nature, travel and loved ones.
Jon Hove
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Neil Johnston
When I move from my familiar studio space into the outdoors to paint, I am challenged by the vastness of the space, the naturalness of the light, the smells, colors, and the textures of the visual space. Getting out of the studio forces me to recalibrate – to move from an internal way of seeing to an outward form of seeking. This transition is profound for me and on many levels, it fuels my painting and is full of surprises and challenges. When we look, we feel. Taking time, sitting, breathing, smelling, looking, and observing these spaces and places, is a powerful exercise to help someone identify where one truly is. I enjoy returning to Port Wing to explore, re-charge, learn, and to celebrate the invigorating challenge of painting the landscape. I am a visual and musical artist, and my studio is in Shoreview, MN.
Lynn Krueger
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Elizabeth Lexau
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Caren Martin
I have been painting off and on (mostly off) since I was in elementary school. Oil paint is my medium of choice. Landscape is my preferred subject. Seems like water, rocks, trees, sky, and the play of light draw me to their constant beauty and ever-changing characteristics. The oil painting process reveals both inspiring, pleasing surprises and disappointments alike—depending on the day! Painting in Port Wing is a highlight of my painting experience.
Joanne Meierhof
I enjoy the challenge of plein air work. Working in pastels provides an immediacy that I love. The downsides are weather and framing. The Port Wing plein air Festival was my first foray into this type of competition and I got hooked.
Priscilla K Olson
Priscilla Olson grew up in Midland, Michigan and began her professional life in the Chicago area as a commercial animator and plein air painter. Since returning to Michigan in 2011, she has been participating in painting events around the area, as well studying figurative subjects in the studio.
Andrea Pokrzywinski
Paul Quie
I dabble in a lot of things, when I go to Port wing it’s usually acrylic paint, possibly oil paint, I usually bring my Chinese brushes and ink with my red stamp. When I’m in the cities, that is the Twin Cities I do conceptual art and mainly acrylic pain getting more abstract as an age. Joy is my subject sometimes from light, and sometimes from playing around.
Megan Raye
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Cindy Schipper
As a teaching artist In senior settings I create and re-create many of the same images but it is always a delight to work with a variety of new artists. We share and learn a bit about art – and a lot about how to enjoy each others’ company. Participating in this festival has been fun because it welcomes and challenges artists of all skill levels. I’ve attached an image from a class I took at the Edina Art Center.
Joseph Smigiel
I’m a recently retired teacher with a background in antiquated photographic processes. Since retiring, I’ve been revisiting my earlier interests in painting and have participated in several classes and workshops. In 2023, my partner and I planned a summer vacation trip from Michigan to Wisconsin and participated in the Port Wing Plein Air Painting Festival. We have returned every year to relax and paint along Lake Superior coast.
I’m quite fond of the Port Wing Plein Air Painting Festival and glad I can participate and meet so many talented artists and local individuals again this year..
Lynn Steiner
Roxanne Sullivan
Plein Air painting is a relatively new endeavor. Its greatest reward is an increased appreciation of the constant changes of a single landscape throughout the day. Learning to “paint the light”…
Wes Sweetland
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Laurice Wade
Setting out in brash ways in order to entice my vision into going through new doorways, brings more freedom perhaps. Opening up connections to life and wonder is change at its best.
Stephen Wysocki
Stephen Wysocki loves to paint and is always painting.
Even when he doesn’t have a brush in his hand; he can’t get, away from it – it’s that simple. Stephen studied at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design for one semester in 1990. He finished his Studio Arts degree with an emphasis in Painting and
a minor in Graphic Design in 1996 at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay.
Wysocki’s mission is to show beauty in the ordinary, to allow the viewer to experience an image they see every day in a new way. He gravitates from ordinary structures to dramatic landscapes. He is always trying to tell a story in his work through brilliant color and muted shadows. He enjoys painting in his studio as much as Plein Air painting Stephen believes that one compliments the other.
Angela Velin
Plein air painting perfectly compliments my love of the outdoors. I enjoy the challenge of capturing light in a fleeting moment. As for my work, I’ve been told my paintings can be quite messy up close, but read well from a few feet away. However I’ve also been told it’s fun to see all the colors hidden in the shadows up close with a flashlight. I just enjoy the process. sometimes experimenting with new discoveries, and hoping for a pretty painting in the end.
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