They were Afraid Painting

Egg tempera painting style is what i do in un orthodox Iconography, Mary Jane Miller, like many others attempt to paint what we cannot see. Our theological and spiritual insights have been handed down over many generations. What often inspires her about icon painting is the million-year-old dirt; ancient stone pigments traditionally used by Byzantine iconographers. The earth was divinely created, and it governs a wide array of texture and color in icon painting. These women stand in fear of something they cannot see, like to Covid, the pandemic is the unknown being revealed and discovered every day. All of life comes from the unseen energy of God, only to be seen in color and formed in creation.