Jessel Gallery in the Spotlight

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Napa Valley Marketplace profile, July 2023

Yountville Sun story about the 2023 Mustard Celebration

HAPPENINGS

The Corvette Club Visits Jessel Gallery

Come rain or shine, the Corvette club comes every year!

​The Corvette Club comes every year and makes the Jessel Gallery one of their favorite stops . (Jessel makes her famous cookies for them so she thinks it is all about the cookies LOL). This is a wonderful group with amazing cars!​

Jessel Miller' s Napa County Library Card ​

Jessel Miller is being honored with a Napa Library Card. She Donated 300 Books to be given away to the children in celebration of the newly renovated CHILDREN'S AREA in the Napa Library

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Our Favorite Volunteers

Thank you to Reg and Nouria Harris for renovating the gallery garden. A true labor of love!

Previously...

Art, Light and the Fourth of July
Rosemarie Kempton, Napa Valley Register

One for Ukraine
Rosemarie Kempton, Napa Valley Register

Napa Valley Mustard Celebration
Craig Smith, Napa Valley Marketplace Magazine

Art Notes: The Return of the Mustard
​Register Staff, Napa Valley Register

Baseball, Art and Giving Back
Sasha Paulsen, Napa Valley Register

Featured Expert on Redfin's Blog: Bringing Life to a Windowless Room

Giving Back and Paying it Forward
Layne Randolph, Inside Napa Valley

A Handmade Holiday Extravaganza
Rosemarie Kempton, Napa Valley Register

Jessel Miller: An artist's guide to surviving fires, floods, terrorist attacks and pandemics
Layne Randolph, Napa Valley Register

Artists Respond to Covid 19,
Napa Valley Register

Nothing Like Napa
Alexandra Sharova, Santa Barbara Life and Style Magazine

Jessel Miller's Soulful Voices story in the Napa Valley Register, by Sasha Paulsen

A Box of Love...
Rosemarie Kempton, Napa Valley Register

A Holiday Extravaganza...
​Rosemarie Kempton, Napa Valley Register

Napa Valley Wildfires Leave Their Mark in Student Art Exhibit,  Howard Yune, Napa Valley Register

Art with Heart, Lisa Adams Walter, Napa Valley Register

Open Studios Napa Valley set for September, Napa Valley Register

Art Blooms in a Springtime Spotlight, Ariel Jackson, Napa Valley Register
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Arts in April at Jessel Gallery, www.napavalley.com

Get Inspired at the Amazing Jessel Gallery in Napa, Churchill Manor 

Jessel Miller New Abstract Acrylic Paintings

Jessel has rediscovered her love for abstraction in these exciting & brilliant colored paintings on Canvas & Paper

Jessel Miller Acrylic Rising Flower Child

Jessel Miller Acrylic Oh Australia

Jessel Miller Acrylic Protector Of Birds & Turtles

Jessel Acrylic From a Distance

   All your abstracts are so vivid in color and so unique that they each take you to a different place. 
    Clara Blair (Jessel Art Student wrote after seeing this new work)

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Fine Jewelry

Jessel Gallery is proud to offer fine jewelry handmade by local artisans. It's a must-see collection.

Handmade Handbags

Introducing handmade leather purses by Deborah Einbender. Take a closer look at this truly unique craftsmanship:

Wood Craft

Jessel Gallery is delighted to welcome artisans Whitmire Wood Craft, Larry Youdell, and Don Velez to the gallery.

Jessel Gallery Wood Crafters

Featured Notes from Our Clients

"I’m not surprised you’re the gathering spot for everyone – cookies and all.  Your deep wisdom draws everyone to you – and I know it certainly did for me.  I remember in 1995, when Pete had had to drop out of the Presidential race because his throat surgery rendered him speechless for 3 months, that we came to Napa, stayed at the Mondavi guest house, and I called and asked you if you would let me come watch you paint.  I think I said that I didn’t need to paint, I just wanted to see how you did it.  You painted a small Napa in November for me and framed it to take home.  That changed my life forever. 
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I have two of your paintings on the wall of my office where I see them every day and think of you, my friend.  We also have the portrait you did of me on the wall in our living room, and I still love it.

Love and Hugs to you,
Gayle Wilson
(former first lady of California, wife of Gov. Pete Wilson)

Jessel's art in the Wilson's home:

Gov. and Mrs. Wilson

Good morning,
Just a short note from a fellow Canadian.   Last Friday I spent a couple of hours at your gallery appreciating your collections, decorations, books and works of various sorts. It was very enjoyable.  I purchased a Manfree piece of pottery, a necklace and your delightful book of Angels.  You were very kind to sign it and I will be gifting this to my sister in law who I know will appreciate your creativity.
The pottery was wrapped well for air travel and arrived in one piece. It looks like it was made for the buffet on which it sits in my dining room.   A piece that will bring me back to Napa over the future years.
It is not my usual habit to write after visits but you were very gracious and I wanted to share my thoughts.
P.s.  Your homemade cookies were OUTSTANDING. If you want to share the recipe I would be very enthusiastic to make them myself.
Kind regards,
Donna P
Montréal, Québec Canada 🇨🇦🍁