TAKE AN ART CLASS AT JESSEL GALLERY
All Lessons Customized to Fit Your Needs.
NO Experience Necessary!

Star Student Michelle Moore

Star Student John Roos - Bee Cigar Box

Jessel Cigar Box of Max

Star Student Pam Stalker Cigar Box

My students continue to amaze me with their ability to jump into new concepts on a weekly basis and create beauty and brilliance."
Jessel Miller

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Classes can be held on-site or off-site at Jessel Gallery

• This is not a paint-by-numbers class. Artwork is personalized and unique.
• Hands-on individualized teaching by Jessel Miller.
• This experience is creative and educational as well as relaxing and re-energizing.
  
• Jessel Gallery provides all project supplies.
• Each student leaves with a completed piece of art.

Email or Call 707.257.2350  or 707.257.7066

Napa Valley Marketplace profile, July 2023

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Student Work 2025

Star Student Gallery

2024 Student Work

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Abstracting Landscapes or Just Abstracts (2/17 & 2/21)

Honoring the Masters (2/10 & 2/14)

Animals (2/3 & 2/7)

The Quintessential Napa View - Sponging Technique (1/27 & 1/31)

Working from Your Photos: Country Roads (1/20 & 1/24)

Working from Your Photos: Napa Barns (1/13 & 1/17)

Working from Your Photos: Interiors (1/6 & 1/10)

Napa Water Towers (12/30 & 1/3)

May 2024 Class

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Students Say

Jessel, thank you for your kind and encouraging words. It was such a wonderful feeling to know I’m making progress! You are a terrific inspiration and instructor. Thank you! 
Cynthia

​I think I rsvp -ed for this Wednesday. Looking forward to another day in painting paradise. 
Susan L 🎨💕

In response to Tim Carl's "Jessel Gallery: Napa's artist hub" I send my full endorsement and appreciation to Jessel Miller. I took my first art class there this past Wednesday.
I thought I would feel out of place being a slightly young man surrounded by women painters, many of them far more talented and learned than myself. But I was welcomed very warmly and had a wonderful experience. Mrs. Miller is an excellent teacher. After all these years, she still exerts such passion and creativity. She is also very patient and kind for first timers like myself who haven't painted in a long time. The potluck is worth going for by itself and I highly recommend people to take a class, or just pop in and see the incredible collection of local artwork showcased there. It truly is a gem in our local community.
Cheers to you Jessel.
Will Butler
Via the Napa Valley Register

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​I wanted to thank you so much for making time to teach me some painting yesterday. I learned so much from you. Your positivity and encouragement was much appreciated. I am inspired to paint. I thought it was serendipitous that I could call and schedule an art lesson on the same day. Then I met you and watched you interact with me, the public and on the phone and realized you were a rare gem of happiness and energy. After reading your 3 books you generously gave me I realized that your message of soft love and strong values was the authentic Jessel. How lucky for me that I was able to meet you. It wasn’t serendipity. It was meant to be. Thank you!!…Suzy

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I would like to comment on the art classes I have begun with Jessel in Napa. As a disabled person, having lost the use of my left hand, and with zero art experience, I was amazed at what I was able to create in a single lesson. Jessel is a patient, talented artist who shares her techniques with people like me who know nothing. By the end of one class, I had an interesting, colorful piece of art that was actually good enough to frame or display. And the second class was a different technique with a completely different result. Very happy to be learning a creative activity to pursue. She is the best teacher!! ❤️❤️ Kathy Ryan

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Wanted to tell you a big thank you for yesterday afternoon. I loved learning more of the “Jessel Method” and it was my first time inside a place in months. I love the Jessel Method and plan to play with it often. I use Saral transfer paper for my mandala templates. I am going to try it for tracing images as it comes in several colors either as sheets or a roll if you want to see if it can work as well for you as the carbon paper. Thank you for a lovely experience and I am delighted to expand upon what I learned from you yesterday; as it was also my first time adding an image in that way to an abstract painting. Have a wonderful day!
Peace and Joy, Joie
Peace is Joy at rest; Joy is Peace dancing!

Joie Goodkin

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"Thank you, thank you... it was a great class, Jessel. It's been almost two years since I started the class. The whole experience has been so good for me. You may not remember how and why I got started in my "art class journey" . I came in to the studio to give you those dress shoes I didn't wear to a fundraiser - and thought I'd never wear heels of any kind again - after my bike accident. I picked up one of your brochures and told you that the Kaiser Rehab suggested that doing new things in a new environment with new people would be a good step in recovery for me. I was all in of course and felt that a big plus was that Jessel Gallery was not a completely new thing for me. And the "rest is history" as they say." - Sally K.