Raffle History
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.
2025 - Liz Maltman
Represented by Fineline Designs Gallery - Ephraim
Summer Islands - Pastel on Paper
Liz Maltman has been a year-round resident of Fish Creek since 1974 and a full-time painter since 2005. Before moving to Door County, Liz grew up in Chicago and spent summers with her family in Fish Creek. She attended college in upstate New York where she received degrees in Psychology and Art History. Liz taught skiing and preschool for a few years when she first moved here while running a ski and bike business with her then-husband. Around 1980, Liz moved with her young son, Cyrus, to an old farmhouse where she still lives today. She worked as a waitress, day-care specialist, and preschool teacher until eventually starting her own art-to-wear boutique, The Magic Jacket, creating fancy artsy clothing herself, but mostly curating great looks for her wonderful customers.
After selling The Magic Jacket to her artist friend, teacher and good customer, Debby Frank, Liz started painting fine art in 2005 while also painting furniture and interiors. Focusing on landscapes and living it, she was invited to participate in the first Door County Plein Air Festival sponsored by PenArt.
Liz is a featured artist at Fineline Designs Art Gallery in Ephraim and also has some pieces decorating the walls of the Shiny Moon Café.
2024 - Marc Anderson
Represented by M. Anderson Gallery - Sturgeon Bay
Door County Shore - Oil on Canvas
A perpetual student of art, Marc has continued to study, learn and hone his craft as a representational painter. As Marc’s love for painting expanded, so too did his professional accomplishments. His work has been accepted into prestigious shows around the country and has garnered awards from Oil Painters of America exhibitions, national juried plein air events, and fine art shows. In 2021, he received the Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship and Artists’ Choice Award at the OPA National Exhibition, and was included in the “Top 10 Artists to Collect Now” special feature in Plein Air Magazine.
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 - Roger 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.
2017 - Rob Williams
Represented by Rob Williams Studio - Ellison Bay
Fish Creek Sails, October - Oil on Canvas
My studio/gallery is located on seven acres of woodland in the Door County Peninsula near Lake Michigan and Green Bay. The rugged beauty of this area is consistently changing and visually inspiring. From the soft rose evening skies, bright sun reflecting off the bay, to the somber mystery of the dark woodlands, and the surprising brilliant colors of autumn, I have a rich source of subject matter. When painting, I translate this subject matter into my version of a contemporary landscape painting… pushing color, design, and my loose painterly style to create something fresh and new.
2016 - Emmett Johns
Represented by Emmett Johns Studio - Fish Creek
One Still Moment in Time - Acrylic on Canvas
This painting is a minimal statement that came about on the fourth attempt. It began with a very methodical, deliberate approach, but in a quick instant that cloud burst forth and all stood still.... Stop, don't add anything…It's a still moment in time.
Reflecting on this painting brings back memories that reach back thirty-seven summers. Turning points, crossroads, profound insights, a rich reservoir to tap into. In a short time that cloud was gone...but for one moment all seemed still.
Emmett splits his year between Fish Creek & Albuquerque, NM. His work is diverse: bold, spontaneous landscapes done on location, which capture the essence of place; exquisite portraits, and his true love, contemporary paintings, "the abstract image being the foundation of all art”.
“I liked this place [Door County] because of the inclusion of four or five different zones of nature. The macro and the micro, distance and foreground. I paint this area a lot and I'll never exhaust the possibilities. Emmett Johns is an icon in the Door County art community.
2015 - Bonnie Paruch
Represented by Fine Line Design - Ephraim
Breezy Day at Eagle Harbor - Acrylic on Canvas
For as long as I can remember I've been drawing and painting the wonders of nature and life. I'm seduced by the beauty I see around me. My style may be summed up by the words a gentleman spoke to me at a show in Scottsdale, Arizona ,"You paint like a dead Russian!" he said. I am inspired by color, light, the texture of my paint and the energy of life itself. I strive for clarity of purpose with an economy of means.
When I begin to paint, I ask myself a series of questions. First and foremost, what is the "big" idea and the focus of the work? My central interest and overall concept is often triggered by an emotional reaction. Communicating that emotion and sense of wonder is the driving force in my painting design. I use shapes, values, colors, edges, brushwork and line to share my point of view. In essence I consider myself a story teller. For me, a successful painting goes beyond recording the facts - a camera can do that. My goal in painting is to create a personal expression filled with emotion, a story left to interpretation.
2014 - Pam Murphy
Represented by Fine Line Design - Ephraim
Hardy Gallery - Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas
Murphy’s paintings feature richly layered backgrounds scratched with texture that incorporate copper, gold or silver leaf to isolate figures on her canvas. Her handmade frames include touches from the colors in the individual paintings to create a cohesive presentation. While inspired by vintage photographs, Murphy’s figures, primarily of children or mid-western structures, are beautifully hand-painted on the canvas.
Whatever Murphy envisions when she creates her artwork, her compelling images merge these past and present stories or myths, the simplicity of a childhood or rural landscapes with the complex universality of the modern day world. As layered as her cloud-like backgrounds, seemingly etched with the years between yesterday and today, Murphy’s paintings perhaps recreate one of the royal folktales recited in One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, yet placed within a contemporary context. A magical context Murphy paints on canvas, which becomes very hard to resist and essential to explore.
2013 - Craig Bleitz
Represented by Edgewood Orchard Galleries - Fish Creek
Ephraim Night Watch - Acrylic on Canvas
"Ephraim Night Watch". Inspired by Rembrandt's "The Night Watch", 1642, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Goat themes around the Peninsula...Sister Bay's Al Johnson Restaurant, the opening of the new Sister Bay Creamery, the goat as icon - lining the streets of Sister Bay on signs promoting the Arts Festival, the goat parade held in Sister Bay in May, the goats participating in the Jacksonport Thanksgiving Day Parade, the blossoming of boutique farming on the peninsula, the fact that there are currently more than 200 plus goats living in Northern Door County, and the artist's personal love and commitment to animals and his commitment to, and support of, the Door County Humane Society.