Mary Jane Miller

Mary Jane Miller has been a full-time artist dedicated to iconography for over 30 years in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She paints and teaches the ancient Byzantine-style art of Icon writing as a prayer form. Her understanding of its spiritual symbolic language and her dedicated skill result in an experience that is deeply meditative as well as artistic. She teaches using the traditional medium of egg tempera, hand-tooled pewter, and gold leaf. Her magnificent and unique studio in Mexico is open by appointment. Celebrated saints, the Mary Collection, Women in Iconography, and Feast Day Byzantine iconography are available to browse on Mary Jane's Websites, San Miguel Icons, or Miller Icons

Miller says she has no idea if her work has any lofty or pious importance. However, she does know that each time she immerses the brush to stir the paint, a spiral of color is formed. This spiral reminds her of eternity and constant change. It is enough for her to witness this magnificent tiny world of paint, revealing its life force and message. Mary Jane Miller is being made whole by the paint, which teaches throughout icon painting workshops. Thank you for listening.

EDUCATION
1984 - 1988 EFM Education for Ministry 4 year course Sewanee,Tenn. University of the South
1977 - 1979 Graduate MFA Instituto Allende, San Miguel Allende, México
1974 - 1976 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA.
1970 - 1974 Philips Academy, Andover MA
Teacher, Author, and Lector on Icon Painting Technique, Prayer, and spirituality of Byzantine-style iconography. The discipline is a practice that enlivens the heart, stimulates the mind, and softens the emotions. Each individual has an opportunity now more than ever to utilize all the techniques available worldwide to strengthen their soul, thereby making the world a kinder place for all.

Boos PUblished
Icons Revealed, two editions 2010
Sacred Lines, sacred Image, Journal writing
Mary Collection 2008 images of The Mother of God
The Life of Christ
Embossing Metal
In Light of Women, 2017 Icon and text commentary on 'the absence of Women's voices
Byzantine Women in iconography

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Texcoco Cutlural center and Museum complex Dec 2018
Museum of Sacred Art Queretero, Mexico June 2017 and 2018
Gene Byron Museum Guanajuato November 2017