2025 Live Auction
2025 Live Auction
Our famous live auction is a primary fundraiser at the festival. Each year, we auction fine art embellished indoor and outdoor furnishings. The items are created by local fine artists who donate their time to the cause. The auctioned items are done in a theme that celebrates art, and wine and music as well as things unique to Ramona, CA, such as our historical museum or American Graffiti cruise nights. We hope you will join us for the festival and take part in the auction.
Our 2025 Auctioneer will be Josh Lawson. Josh was born and raised in San Diego. He realized in grade school that he was able to control just about any situation with humor. For the next 10 years his teachers had their hands full. Josh first took the stage in 2010 and quickly became the one of the most sought-after emcees in San Diego. Hosting comedy shows, award banquets. We are pleased to have Josh back again, donating his time to the festival and bringing us an enjoyable and successful auction.
All items are created in the months before the festival and put on display at host locations in the Ramona and San Diego areas. See below for the most recent items and their host locations.
Auction Date: November 1, 2025 Time: 2 pm
Location: Begent Ranch – Central Courtyard
Hand Painted Wine Barrel
One of Ramona’s acclaimed muralists, he painted two murals, La Quinceañera and The Garden, as well as two utility boxes for the Project. Johnathan brings his bright and beautiful style to yet another wine barrel this year. His 2024 barrel achieved the highest bid ever for a Festival live auction item.
Preview Location
24157 San Vicente Road, Ramona, CA
You can view this item until 10/30/2025
Artist: 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.
Considering his paintings a celebration of color, Johnathan focuses his themes around family and love. His representational works possess a primitive quality yet are quite contemporary. His pieces are painted without faces in order to allow the audience to project themselves into the painting and reminisce of a tender moment with one or more of their loved ones.
Johnathan’s ultimate desire is to brighten people’s lives by producing an emotional connection with his work. Generally showcasing his artwork locally, Johnathan has garnered quite a positive response even when selling in venues outside of his town of Ramona. Bold painting strokes and vibrant colors are Johnathan’s hallmark and his painting style really stands out in a crowd.
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.
If you’re looking to commission a beautiful, bright and professional mural or painting contact this amazing artist by https://jmstudioart.com/contact/
Hand Painted Wine Cabinet
Lori’s latest endeavor is “Earth Gems Art”, fine and functional art. Paintings created with acrylics, inks, and embellished with semi-precious stones, tumbled glass, metal, geode slices, then protected by resin. You might recall her stunning half wine barrel planters from the 2024 Festival.
This year she is applying the phrase “I’m a lover not a fighter,” to the transition of a gun cabinet into a beautiful wine glass display complete with her painted wine glasses.
Preview Location
1625 Hwy 78, Ramona, CA
You can view this item until 10/30/2025
Artist: Lori Sutherland
Lori Sutherland, a home-grown California girl, now lives in Ramona, CA, with her husband, daughter, and several animals. She has always filled her life with some kind of art or craft project: upholstery, sewing, cake decorating, stained glass, pastels, acrylics, and colored pencils, to name a few!
Lori’s latest endeavor is “Earth Gems Art”, fine and functional art. Paintings created with acrylics, inks, and embellished with semi-precious stones, tumbled glass, metal, geode slices, etc. Then smothered in resin.
She has also created a functional line of wine glasses, wood serving trays, charcuterie boards, stone coasters, and more. Lori has participated in the Ramona Open Studio Tour for many years. Her art can be seen / purchased at the 2Create Gallery in Ramona.
Hand Painted Room Divider
The Festival’s 2023 Featured Artist, is inspired by nature and the beauty around us. She captures all that in this 3-panel screen, bringing the scenic Ramona Grasslands with its wildlife and vistas into your home.
Preview Location
30270 State Highway 78, Santa Ysabel, CA
You can view this item until 10/30/2025
Sponsor
Artist: Jennifer Crenshaw
Hand Painted Half Wine Barrel
Don’t stand still, she’ll paint you along with the shoes, canvases, wood, rocks, and utility boxes she likes to paint. She is also a member of the board of the Ramona H.E.A.R.T. Mural Project. Danni painted a wine barrel for the Festival auction in 2019 and is back painting a colorful half barrel planter this year.
Preview Location
30270 State Highway 78, Santa Ysabel, CA
You can view this item until 10/30/2025
Sponsor
Artist: Danni Pearson
Plasma Cut Metal Embellished Half Wine Barrel
Lyn studied art at several universities over the years, adopting fused glass at her medium of choice before incorporating plasma cut metal into her work. Capturing the natural wood tones of a half wine barrel with her signature plasma cut metal grape vine sculptures, Lyn brings this key feature of the Ramona Valley to your porch or patio.
Sponsor/Preview Location
325 6th Street, Ramona, CA
You can view this item until 10/30/2025
Artist: Lyn Feudner
2025 Live Auction Sponsors
We would sincerely like to thank our generous sponsors and community partners. With your support, we are able to produce a world-class festival celebrating local art, craft beverages and music. All proceeds from the festival go to support the Ramona H.E.A.R.T. Mural Project, a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Corporation with the mission of promoting tourism and economic prosperity in Ramona.
