The Hardy Gallery Board of Directors conceived the concept for this annual fundraiser in the fall of 2012, commissioning local legacy artists to make a piece of art with the goal of fundraising for the Gallery. The goal was the create interest in a product that directly taps into the connection to Door County and the legacy of the arts in the community. The commissioned artwork goes on display at the beginning of every season and is on display until the gallery closes in the fall, when a name is picked from the pool of raffle tickets. The images below are the previous raffle artworks.

2023 - Margaret Lockwood

Represented by Margaret Lockwood Gallery - Sturgeon Bay
Settling Clouds II - Oil on Canvas

Margaret grew up in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago then went to Miami (of Ohio) University. Graduating with a degree in social work, she worked with families and children in need before getting married and moving to St. Louis to raise her family. Artistically she began as a weaver and recieved her Masters of Fine Art in painting from Fontbonne University. Painting became her medium of expression and led her to founding Woodwalk Gallery in Door County in 1994. All her paintings begin in a real time and place but then she works and reworks the images with many layers until the paintings can be any time and any place. She is a recipient of the Door County Master Artist award, the Milwaukee Women’s Professional Dimensions Sacagewea Award, the Wisconsin Arts Association Triennial show in Madison and other awards and exhibits throughout the Midwest. Margaret’s work can be seen at the Margaret Lockwood Gallery in the creative district in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.

2022 - Rodger Bechtold

Represented by Edgewood Orchard Galleries - Fish Creek
The Hardy Gallery - Oil on Linen

Roger Bechtold was born in 1945 in Michigan and was raised in central Illinois and has lived in and around Chicago since age eighteen. He nurtured his interests in the visual arts at the American Academy of Art, Chicago and the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Involved in commercial art illustration for many years he abandoned that pursuit some thirty years ago in favor of the painting of lansdcapes full time. What really ignited this passion for painting was his exposure to mentor Wolf Kahn through the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Art as part of the Masters Art Program.

Over time Bechtold has built a solid reputation for being a major contributor to the ongoing dialogue in contemporary lanscape painting in the Midwest and beyond. His work is expressed with energy, painted with seemingly effortless brushwork and charged with color. All connected by place and moment.

2021 - Brian Sindler

The Hardy Gallery, Nocturne - Acrylic on Panel

I am driven to create works of art that capture the emotion and feeling of night. The peacefulness in the evening is the mood I'm most interested in conveying. Nighttime is the painter's equivalent to music in a minor key. I hope that looking at my work the viewer will feel a sense of calm.

2020 - Susan Hale

Represented by Edgewood Orchard Galleries - Fish Creek
Waiting for Sunset - Oil on Canvas

I have always loved to draw and paint. Living in the Wisconsin countryside is a constant inspiration to me. It seems everywhere I look I see a painting - sunrises on Lake Michigan, golden hay bales scattered in a farm field, popcorn clouds dancing in a cerulean blue sky. Color and pattern are an important aspect of my work. I try to create on the canvas the energy and connection to nature I feel as I paint. Working in oil, I apply the paint thick and luscious, like frosting on a cake. “Let the paint talk", I often say.

2019 - Ginnie Cappaert

Represented by Cappaert Contemporary Gallery - Egg Harbor
Summer Breezes - Oil and Cold Wax on Board

It is the landscape imagery and its deep space that Ginnie Cappaert explores in her paintings by building 30-40 layers of oil paints, cold wax, and other mixed mediums. It is by this process of very thin layers of oil paint adding texture, scraping the paint, dissolving areas and then rebuilding them that she constructs an interesting surface with metallics, texture and depth. The finished painting is a color infused interpretation of the landscape. By looking closely and focusing on patterns, line, shape and color, Ginnie Cappaert was able to capture a freedom found in distant horizons and wide expanses.

Ginnie Cappaert is a full time visual artist with a studio/gallery in Egg Harbor. Her surroundings of nature and her travels inspire and influence her oil/mixed media paintings. She is represented locally at Edgewood Orchard Galleries and Cappaert Contemporary Gallery as well as galleries across the country including Globe Fine Art in Santa Fe. Her studio/gallery, Cappaert Contemporary Gallery, Egg Harbor is open daily May 1 - October 31.

2018 - Stephanie Trenchard

Represented by Popelka Trenchard Studio Gallery - Sturgeon Bay
Luna Walking - Glass

“When I look at pictures of Ephraim from 150 years ago I can relate to what it felt like to walk under the moonlight on the water. It still feels the same. The messages that we get from nature are timeless.” ~ Luna Walking

Popelka Trenchard art glass studio where nationally known artists Stephanie Trenchard and Jeremy Popelka, cast glass sculptures and blow glass, specializing in Murrini, a Venetian technique. Classes in the Glass Blowing Experience are offered year round taught by Popelka. Trenchard shows her abstracted oil painted landscapes. In addition to fine art glass, they have light fixtures, jewelry, gifts and demonstrations.