During BAM!Fest on April 5, 2025, eight local artists were invited to paint large scale pieces throughout the eight hour event. These paintings are inspired by the beauty, excitement, and community that surrounded them while they created.
These paintings are now on sale to support Realize Bradenton and our mission to enhance the vibrancy of downtown Bradenton through community engagement, events, and the pursuit of insightful and innovative practices to increase social connectivity.
- Complete the form linked to the button below the painting to place a bid.
- The auction ends at 11:59 pm on Friday, January 9, 2026.
- If you would like to see the paintings, please contact accounting@realizebradenton.com to schedule a viewing.
- Personal information on the bids will not be publicized.
- By placing a bid, you are agreeing to pay that price for the piece if you are the highest bid when the auction ends at 11:59 pm on Friday, January 9, 2026.
- If you win the auction, you must be able to pick up your painting. Delivery is not available.
- Bids are updated at noon, Monday – Friday.
- Bids will be taken based on the timestamp on the form.
- Winners will be notified on Monday, January 12, 2026 with payment and pickup instructions.
- All other questions please contact accounting@realizebradenton.com.
- Complete the form linked to the button below the painting to place a bid.
- The auction ends at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, December 31, 2025.
- If you would like to see the paintings, please contact accounting@realizebradenton.com to schedule a viewing.
- Personal information on the bids will not be publicized.
- By placing a bid, you are agreeing to pay that price for the piece if you are the highest bid when the auction ends at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, December 31, 2025.
- If your bid wins the auction, you must be able to pick up your painting. Delivery is not available.
- Bids are updated at noon, Monday – Friday.
- Bids will be taken based on the timestamp on the form.
- Winning bidders will be notified on Tuesday, January 6, 2026 with payment and pickup instructions.
- All other questions please contact accounting@realizebradenton.com
Laura Diffendal
Bradenton, Florida
2025
Title: Historic Corwin’s Dock
Acrylic on Canvas
60” x 48”
Bradenton is Laura’s favorite city in the world to paint! Her preferred medium is acrylic on canvas and she also loves all forms of graphic art. Her passion is finding old postcards or Old Florida scenes, and recreating them in a vintage style. She also loves Mid Century Modern and Art Deco styles. Her art has been featured at Art Center Manatee exhibitions numerous times.
Chris Dyer
Saint Petersburg, Florida
2025
Title: Activated
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 72”
Chris grew up in Lima, Peru until age 17. He eventually moved to Canada to study art for eight years in different colleges. He ended up living in the beautiful french city of Montreal for a couple of decades, but recently relocated to Saint Petersburg, Florida! Chris’ exploration of inner worlds and ability to juggle mediums, styles, and themes has made him stand out in the different art movements he is part of. Chris’ biggest joy is to make his fans happy and to meet up with them at the different events, so make sure to catch him somewhere and give him a nice hug!
Stephanie Guevara, Bradenton, Florida
Lillian Fox, Tampa, Florida
2025
Title: Friendly Faces
Acrylic on Canvas
60” x 48”
Stephanie is a seasoned artist, teaching students in Texas and Florida for years. Her prize possessions consist of paintings created by her students and her own children. She is a mom and grandmother, who loves adventure, traveling, and Jesus. Her inspiration comes from nature and all that the Floridan coast life has to offer. She is elated to have a business with her daughter creating art that brings joy to others!
Lillian (Stephanie’s daughter) has been an artist and painter since the age of three. Growing up in an art centric environment she knew her whole life that her passion was to share her creations with the world. Lillian is currently an art student at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She specializes as an oil painter, combining her skills in realism with an infusion of abstraction from nature. She is currently experimenting with printmaking and multi-media art, whilst collaborating with peers preparing for gallery openings.
Mary Frangapane
Bradenton, Florida
2025
Title: Spring and the New Moon Queen
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 72”
Mary started her career as an artist working with interior designers to create bespoke decorative finishes in the residential market. Her career as a public artist was born, however, when she was hired to work with 20 other artists to create the murals that adorned the fences surrounding the concert site at Woodstock ’99. After moving to New York City in the early 2000’s Mary continued painting murals for many of the large public art events happening at the time and exhibiting her fine art in galleries in Soho and Chelsea. Eventually, seeking endless summer Mary moved to Bradenton Florida where she has continued painting murals for notable clients such as, the A.E. Backus Museum, the City of Pompano Beach, the City of Bradenton, Sarasota Classic Car Museum, along with numerous private clients. “It’s the appreciation of what a great mural or other piece of public art means to the people’s lives it inhabits that drives me to create this kind of work.”
Darryl Goldman
Bradenton, Florida
2025
Title: Bradenton’s Pier 22
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 72”
Darryl Goldman is a retired US Army Chaplain and retired Presbyterian minister. His love of painting goes back to a very early age, but his ministry career came first – until he retired! Then he picked up his brushes and never looked back. Although he paints a variety of motifs, from Wisconsin farms to fishing boats to marine life and people doing extraordinary things, he says his primary subject is really the same – the light.
Jason Harvin
Saint Petersburg, Florida
2025
Title: Wayward Roses
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 72”
Jason was born and raised in Germany while his parents served in the US Air Force. After a career installing hotel software across North America, Jason decided to start a business based on his deep passion for space transformation through art and painting, specifically, geometric dominant design. Since then he has been featured on HGTV and opened Wayworld, a gallery and event space in St. Pete.
Arielle Katarina
Cape Coral, Florida
2025
Title: Hatch the Woodstork
Acrylic on Canvas
60” x 48”
Arielle is a southwest Florida artist and craft beer label illustrator. She’s known for making colorful art with crispy linework and likes to create designs that are vibrant, fun, and a little rough around the edges. Her work is a modern mix of the two- her love for tropical leaves and animals. Her work ranges in scale from small digital pieces to large hand-painted murals and can be seen around the Tampa Bay area and beyond.
Ellen Kantro
Sarasota, Florida
2025
Title: Yellow Keeps Talking
Acrylic on Canvas
60” x 48”
Ellen’s path to becoming an abstract artist took many turns. Discouraged from attending art school, she focused on her other passion, musical theatre, where she was a touring stage manager for several years. After a minor injury that sidelined her for a short time, she became a graphic designer. She successfully transitioned from business to abstract art. Her work exudes an unmistakable urban vibe, reflecting the dichotomy of her past and present.
