JANIS ADAMS
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The color and texture of early Spring in Napa Valley is an artist's inspiration: crisp blue skies, cotton candy clouds, bud break on the vines and copious amount of mustard in the vineyards! My kiln-formed glass, created at this my favorite time of year, focuses on this wonderful palette and Mother Nature's renewal efforts. My glass offerings for the Napa Valley Mustard Celebration capture the delights of Spring in jewelry and functional giftware. I have been blessed to enjoy 30+ years living in the Napa Valley and grateful to have discovered the joys of making fused glass for 10+ years. Life is good! |
KATE CANON
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Kate's jewelry is tasteful and delicate. She creates simple and beautiful designs perfect for someone who likes understated elegance. She also uses beads in unique embroidered artwork and in beautiful Christmas ornaments. |
MARGO CARRERA
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Margot is a fine art nature photographer. She uses her photography to create wearable art, scarves, home decor, wall hangings, and gifts items. Her art can be seen at Jessel Gallery in Napa, Oceanside Museum of Art in Southern California, and Off Track Gallery in Encinitas, California. |
CYNTHIA SCHIFF (ZELDA)
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I began in pottery and sculpture. Then one day I met a woman who invited me to try her glass fusing class. I did. I was instantly hooked. I took to it like a duck to water and I could even use my pottery skills to make molds to melt the glass over my pieces. Fused glass is my new passion along with acrylic abstracts. I love color and design. |
MARTA COLLINGS
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Living in the Napa Valley for over 35 years has given me plenty of subject matter for my paintings. Mustard in the spring, lush greens in the summer , the beautiful colors in the autumn and the foggy mood of winter. Oil painting with a palette knife are my tools of choice to create my impressions of the beauty of the valley and surrounding areas. |
SHARON CRARY
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I’m an octo-genexer who plays with color and weaves yarns into textiles of all kinds but especially tapestries. Having grown up in the mid-west farm belt and spent the majority of my life in the swamp lands of Louisiana my husband and I moved here 10 years ago and I fell in love with the new to me landscapes of Napa Valley vineyards and mountains. The process of creating images on woven cloth can keep me under the influence of the lose track of time zone for hours a day. Problem solving and creating are fantastic fun! |
ERIN DERTNER
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I'm a tempest of all things art, having carved out a life in paint plus 2 artistic kids and a husband that makes picture frames. I lead workshops with joie de vivre on a beer budget. We've peeked thru hordes at Mona Lisa, painted Monet's pond and cried in Vincent's olive grove. Born in 1957 and after 33 years on the Mendocino Coast, Santa Rosa is my new home as of January 2020. I show in Mendocino, Maui and Napa. Lucky me! |
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"In my paintings I work to express beauty through the orchestration of two-dimensional elements – shape, value and temperature. I infuse randomness whenever possible and at every scale. Random is beauty: There are no ugly clouds." Michael Fitzpatrick started his art career in the mid sixties by attending Art Center College of Design in L.A. After graduating he went to work for D’Arcy, McManus, Masius Advertising in New York as an art director. Next he moved back to the coast where he started and ran his own ad agency: Fitzpatrick and Walker adv. Drawing and design were always a large part of Michael’s daily activity. In New York it was drawing storyboards for TV ads by the hundreds. In California design and illustration were the emphasis. All this commercial activity was only a backdrop for Michael’s real love – painting. In the early nineties he broke away from the nine to five and did his fine art in earnest, painting virtually every day since. He has many collectors around the world, and shows in galleries in Napa Valley and Sausalito. He held the prestigious position as resident painter at Domain Chandon for two years. Michael paints in oil in a traditional style allowing him to fully utilize his classical training. While mostly he paints figurative, still-life and landscape are also very much represented in his body of work. |
SUSAN HOEHN
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
California artist Susan Hoehn is best known for her vibrant hues reflecting the beauty of the landscapes she paints. From vineyards to seaside vistas Ms. Hoehn captures the essence of the contemporary landscape. Susan received a B.A. in Art from the University of California at Berkeley where she was schooled in a variety of mediums. As a student in the late 70’s she studied painting under Joan Brown. During that period she worked part time for the University Bear Backers designing brochure covers for athletic events. She also designed the poster for the U.S.A. vs U.S.S.R. International Track Event. Susan has built a successful art career painting the vineyards of Northern California. Her paintings and limited edition giclees can be found in numerous galleries through out California and especially in the Napa and Sonoma region. She visits the wine country several times a year exploring new locations to photograph and paint. She is most inspired by summer and fall as the color, light and shadows unite to form that perfect composition. When Susan started exhibiting at the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, she decided to explore other subject matters as well as her landscape paintings. " I enjoy painting things that I love, and going to museums is one of my favorite things to do. Her depiction of museum goers is a juxtaposition between our current culture and the historical masterpieces on view. Travel is also one of her passions that has inspired many of her paintings. No matter what the subject, Susan knows she is ultimately successful when someone viewing her painting experiences the same delight from the scene as she did. Susan Hoehn’s art is exhibited in many galleries in the western United States and is collected across the U.S., Canada and abroad. This is her sixth year exhibiting at the juried Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach. |
MARVIN HUMPHREY
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
A California native, Marvin Humphrey has been drawing and painting for more than 60 years. He attended San Diego State College in the early '60's, and served as the cartoonist for the Daily Aztec newspaper for 4 years. In the past 20 years, he has completed approximately 2500 oil paintings. Living and working in St. Helena since 1993, Marvin has sold many small paintings in the Napa Valley. The Jessel Gallery is the first gallery to feature his amazing original Oil Paintings. |
THÉRÈSE LÉGÈRE
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Thérèse Légère recently moved to the inspiring Napa Valley. Seeing through the artist’s eye, she is painting the colors, textures and light of the vineyards and mountains. She is exploring a new painting technique she calls “Defined Impressionism”. Initially she creates an Impressionist painting followed by defining some of the brush strokes, shapes and colors. This process creates a stain glass effect that enhances the colors and light. |
LISA LIVONI
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Lisa Livoni is a Eugene, Oregon artist best known for her spontaneous and luminous watercolors that celebrate her passion for color, light and texture. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii she developed a serious interest in art as a child and attributes some of her early creative influences to living in Japan for three years and attending art classes at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D. C. Lisa has a BFA from the California College of the Arts and started a graphic design firm in San Francisco that eventually led her to move to the Napa Valley in 1988. After twenty years of designing, she resumed her first love of drawing and painting. Lisa studied with watercolor painter, Charles Reid, at the Silvermine Guild Art Center in Connecticut and Mendocino Art Center in California. In 2015 she moved to Eugene, Oregon where she resides with her husband. |
DAVID MAHAFFEY
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I’ve been a working winemaker for forty one vintages, but I’ve been a wood lathe artist for more than sixty years. I started making spinning tops in walnut when I was ten. These days my lathe turned bowls and sculptures are a larger scale, often beginning as a found piece of special wood that I can barely pick up to mount on the lathe. The focus of my wood turned pieces is always an exploration of the internal beauty of the piece of wood at hand, what it can show and teach me, and the pleasure of converting something that is almost firewood into a piece of art. |
MARK MATTIOLI
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My process begins with ideas—original and imaginative ideas—captured in notebooks and sketch pads. These drawings become the foundation of all the finished works. My subjects are broad--usually humor, oddity, dramatic scale and strong caricature are in evidence. I am basically a cartoonist who draws and paints.” I have publicly exhibited fine arts work since 1991, participating in the prestigious Napa Valley Wine Auction for 12 years, Napa Valley Open Studios for 14 years, and numerous solo and group exhibitions. |
JESSEL MILLER
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
A Bit About Jessel by Joy West Since its inception in 1984 Jessel Miller has been the heart and soul of Jessel Gallery. Believing that art belongs to everyone and is in everyone, Jessel's doors are open to kids and animals as well as wayfaring tourists and locals, many of whom come in strangers and leave having made a new and dear friend. You will hear her buzzing around, everywhere at once, a whirlwind of positivity answering questions on the run, giving fashion advice, consulting with potential buyers, autographing books, answering the phone, selling husband Gary’s farm fresh eggs, making it all seem like child's play. The Jessel Gallery is the oldest, largest and voted best gallery in the Napa Valley and is off the beaten track, hidden in the eastern hillside in a historic 100 year old sprawling building. Once Hedgeside Whiskey Distillery this vine-covered respite with its lush gardens and deck looks more like a restaurant than a gallery. Thanks to Jessel's vision and touch, from the moment you walk through the front door you feel like you are in someone’s home and throughout the10 rooms the feeling gets stronger and more apparent with the comfortable sofas, nut mix and famous homemade oatmeal cookies made from her own secret recipe at the bar. After 30 plus years in the world of art, there is still a freshness and a newness in Jessel's enthusiasm about what is yet to come from her and about others' creations. It's apparent when she talks about the work of artists new in the gallery and when she teaches budding artists every week. There is an undeniable generosity of spirit in her that sets the tone for any interaction and endeavor. And it all comes back to her deep experience. Jessel was fortunate enough to meet and paint such notable celebrities as Maya Angelou, Dianne Feinstein, Louise Davies and many more in her early career before the Jessel Gallery and she had her first Solo Exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Today Jessel has a new vision. The creation of what she calls the HeART Farm. Classes are increasingly popular and teachers are approaching Jessel to be added to the calendar so it is with this in mind that Jessel is either going to expand the class concept at the present location or find a Barn Like Structure and create a separate location to expand the Class Concept. |
DANIEL MUNDY
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Misty, primordial forests of the Northwest, the fringes of the Alaskan wilderness and the rugged Oregon coastline were his childhood playgrounds. These memories, the ever-changing landscape around him, and an over 50 year passion to paint has brought him to the confident, measured surety of the work that comes from his easel today. Daniel has a studio in Rio Rancho, New Mexico where he lives with his wife MaryAnn. |
LEO PECK
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Ceramic Artist Leo Peck has been a potter and tile maker for over 40 years. Currently he is producing functional pottery for everyone to use and enjoy. |
DIANE POPE
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Finding watercolors beautiful and challenging, I began to focus on this medium in 2003. My love for nature and the beauty of the Napa Valley inspire me to paint mostly wildlife, flowers and some landscapes. I exhibit and sell my work throughout the year in Napa at the Jessel Gallery as well as the Blue Goose Gallery in Chester, CA and the Blue Moose Gallery in Fort Collins, CO. I also participate in Open Studios Napa Valley and a few art shows throughout the year. In addition to prints and cards I transfer my artwork to many other specialty gift items. |
ALAN SANBORN
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I'm a straightforward, no special effects, watercolorist. My style? Like everyone, I try and I've tried to paint like those I most admire, sometimes my own students. Boy do I see a lot I like in other people's paintings. But I hold a brush differently, I see color differently. My style is, probably, how much myself gets in the way of lessons I can't quite learn. |
TERRY SAUVÉ
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
In a world in transition, Terry’s luminous landscapes connect the viewer with something both ephemeral as well as transcendent. Her images are archetypal– hitting with a deep emotional impact, creating a sense of harmony and balance. Living close to nature in Northern California with her husband, Paul and son, David, she paints the places she loves most. |
OLAF SCHNEIDER
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Olaf Schneider — (b.1964-) is a painter from the Toronto area, who is widely regarded to be one of the acknowledged leaders in mural painting in Canada. Olaf’s training has been thorough and exceptional. Having been schooled at the Ontario College of Art and mentored by some of the world’s leading billboard painters. Major galleries in Toronto, throughout North America and Europe, have exhibited Olaf’s work. Olaf is a member of the prestigious Oil Painters of America — Additionally, he has won numerous awards and honours. He has been heralded top honours in International Artist Magazine, Interior Design Show, Ducks Unlimited Canada, Mercedes Benz Canada to name a few. Philosophy Art is a celebration of life, and the making of art is an expression of the sacred spiritual discipline. If a painting could, for a moment, capture the attention and awareness of the viewer through visual harmony, carry on a dialogue, bring the viewer further than the call of the senses, beyond a momentary concern for the past or future, to a timeless state free from thought and self consciousness. Then the work has approached the realm of art, the realm of life. |
BJ THRAILKILL
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I enjoy bringing to life ideas that deviate from absolute representation and move toward a more peculiar realism. My paintings often focus on a single subject, drawn from our natural and manmade worlds. I think of these paintings as portraits that reveal the quirky personalities and particularities of the subjects, whether they be crows, kitchen sinks or anything else. |
FRANK TROZZO
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Frank Trozzo is an award winning Napa Artist. He has used his artistic talents in many different fields, painting, jewelry, sculpture, digital arts and design. Currently painting full time and working on a series of wildlife paintings as well as a music series called “The Color of Music.” Born in Washington, D.C. His parents noticed his talents at an early age and encouraged him. They sent him to art lessons and gave him a set of oil paints. He has been painting off and on ever since. |
JOY WEST
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Whether painting or dyeing, my goal is to create something brand new, never before seen or interpreted in that way, to surprise myself, to be willing to be open to shifts and to be along for the ride. Abstracts and loose forms fascinate me because they are such rich mediums for storytelling, for evoking emotion, for interaction between the observer and the observed, for limitless potential in interpretation. |
BEVERLY WILSON
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Beverly Wilson turns ordinary moments into the extraordinary. Her oil paintings are inspired by the dramatic changes of the seasons, temperature and light. With bold compositions, unique strokes, and a personal collection of colors, she expresses the universal rhythms of rural life and her love of the countryside. The land itself and man's place in it are favorite themes. As a student of Richard Diebenkorn in the early 1970s at UCLA, she was drawn to the qualities of the expressionists and colorists and her work began an evolution into a vibrant style of her own. After earning a BFA, she spent a year in Italy selling her sketches as she traveled through the vineyard regions of Tuscany and Umbria. It was this love of the wine country and the tranquility of rural life that brought her to the Napa Valley in 1983. She lives and paints in the Napa Valley countryside and wherever travels may take her. |
ELIZABETH BUSH
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