Artist Hall of Fame

Artists Hall of Fame

Artist Hall of Fame

We love to celebrate talented local artists, both professionals and beginners.

Each year, the festival holds a juried art contest to select our featured art for the year. The original artwork is auctioned in our famous live auction. The art is featured on the cover of our festival program, on social media and other advertising.

The winning artist becomes our featured artist for the year and gains permanent recognition in our Artist Hall of Fame. The artist also enjoys many other benefits including 2 free tickets to the festival and an optional free booth at the festival where you can show and sell your artwork.

The contest opens in June and the winner is chosen in August. Please consider entering this year. Show us your expressive interpretation of the Ramona area to include a theme of Wine, Music and Art.

2026 Featured Artist

Terry Truett

Special congratulations to Terry Truett of Ramona, CA for winning our 2026 Art Contest!

This vibrant painting celebrates wine and music in an artful presentation while featuring sentimental features of the Ramona and surrounding landscape with native plants, hillsides and special skies. Some key components that make up the Festival and Ramona itself, blending music and wine in a swirl of color and motion. Bold musical notes and a treble clef dance across a rainbow background, while a glass of red wine is dramatically poured, connecting sound, taste, and energy in one lively composition.

Terry Truett is a self-taught multimedia artist living in Ramona. Her art is vibrant, colorful, and full of life depicting natures’ beauty as she experienced living throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States. Born in Costa Rica and raised in Panama explains her love for colorfully rich paintings ranging from coastal themes to inspirational sunsets. While living on the Gulf Coast, Terry’s art was featured in several venues in New Orleans and in other cities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Her work is appreciated by art lovers around the world. She has collectors in Europe, Latin America, and throughout the United States. As an artist, her hope is to deliver into people’s lives the joy and happiness her themes bring to her.

Terry Truett
Terry Truett
Get your own copy of this beautiful print

Limited edition signed and numbered prints of the art painted by Ramona artist Terry Truett to commemorate the 2026 Ramona Art and Wine Festival will be available for sale at the Festival and also after the festival at 2Create Gallery, 438 Main Street, Ramona CA 92065, 619-985-9584, 2creategallery@gmail.com.

Format: Print of Original Art
Size: 8 ½ x 14, Unframed
Medium: Acrylic – Signed and Numbered
Price: $35

Previous Featured Artists

We would like to thank these fine artists for their contribution to past festivals and for donating their original art for our live auction in support of this wonderful cause.

2025 Winner

Terry Truett

Terry Truett is a self-taught multimedia artist living in Ramona. Her art is vibrant, colorful, and full of life depicting natures’ beauty as she experienced living throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States. Born in Costa Rica and raised in Panama explains her love for colorfully rich paintings ranging from coastal themes to inspirational sunsets. While living on the Gulf Coast, Terry’s art was featured in several venues in New Orleans and in other cities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Her work is appreciated by art lovers around the world. She has collectors in Europe, Latin America, and throughout the United States. As an artist, her hope is to deliver into people’s lives the joy and happiness her themes bring to her.

Terry Truett
Terry Truett
2024 Winner

Linda Kelly

Linda is a full-time artist with 30+ years of experience and paints all subjects, specializing in watercolor, acrylics and mixed media. She loves painting every day and selling her pieces and holding sip & paint and private classes at the Linda Kelly Fine Art Gallery at 976 Main St.

Linda Kelly
Linda Kelly
2023 Winner

Jennifer Crenshaw

Jen Crenshaw is a professional artist specializing in gouache and watercolor paintings of nature and wildlife.  Even as a young child growing up in Ramona, Jen always aspired to be an artist. She earned her BA in Fine Art from Cal State Stanislaus and is inspired by nature and enjoys painting the beauty that surrounds us. Jen has a profound love of animals and her passion is painting wildlife. Her work is enhanced by her twenty years as a professional photographer, as she often uses her nature photography as references in her paintings.

Jennifer Crenshaw
Jennifer Crenshaw
2022 Winner

Lynette Bredow

Lynette Bredow has been creating art since childhood, beginning her focused study of painting in high school during the mid-1960s. She started with charcoal, pencil, and pen and ink before discovering oils during her senior year. Through classes and independent experimentation, she continued developing her skills. In the early 1990s, Lynette discovered acrylics and enjoyed their quick drying time and lack of odor. After working primarily in acrylics throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, she took several years away from art to raise a family with her husband. She eventually returned to creating, and in 2014, a watercolor workshop introduced her to the medium that became her passion. Although she occasionally paints in acrylic, watercolor remains her favorite.

Lynette Bredow
Lynette Bredow
2021 Winner

Johnathan Martinez

Johnathan Martinez delivers artwork with the express goal of enticing the audience to form an emotional connection to his work while reinforcing the ideals of family, love, friendship and the joy of living life. He is dedicated to promoting these values and strengthening his community by providing support to local community programs via donations of sales proceeds.

Johnathan is perhaps one of Ramona’s most identifiable artists, with colorful paintings and stylized figures without faces. Johnathan has been a regular contributor to the Ramona H.E.A.R.T. Mural scene, with 2 murals. His mural, “La Quinceañera,” painted on the east side of Leslie’s Pool Supplies at 1905 Main St., is indicative of his craft and his colorful birds and insects in The Garden mural at Main Street Coffee, 680 Main St. demonstrates his versatility. He has also painted 2 Utility boxes, and contributed his art and barrel art in several Ramona Art, Wine & Music Festivals.

Johnathan Martinez
Johnathan Martinez
2020 Winner

Annette Cirillo

Annette paints art on canvas as well as functional art on wood: she paints lively art on wood and seals the pieces in a certified food safe resin to create functional art charcuterie serving boards. They are bright, fun art that can be displayed on an easel or tabletop and wall art.

2020 Annette Cirillo
2020 Annette Cirillo
2019 Winner

Lynette Bredow

Lynette Bredow has been creating art since childhood, beginning her focused study of painting in high school during the mid-1960s. She started with charcoal, pencil, and pen and ink before discovering oils during her senior year. Through classes and independent experimentation, she continued developing her skills. In the early 1990s, Lynette discovered acrylics and enjoyed their quick drying time and lack of odor. After working primarily in acrylics throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, she took several years away from art to raise a family with her husband. She eventually returned to creating, and in 2014, a watercolor workshop introduced her to the medium that became her passion. Although she occasionally paints in acrylic, watercolor remains her favorite.

2019 Lynette Bredow
2019 Lynette Bredow
2018 Winner

Jamie Dougherty

Jamie was born and raised in Ramona. She loves to create a wide range of artistic designs, but she is best known for her female faces. She is also a product designer in the craft and hobby industry and has independently produced art stencils and self-published adult coloring books. Her fine art skills explore watercolors, mixed media and sculpting. She also has painted a wine barrel for the Festival’s live auction.

2018 Jamie Dougherty
2018 Jamie Dougherty

2026 Art Contest Sponsors

Paul & Dottie Pakus
Famous Ramona Water