Mary Jane Miller, an icon painter and writer and one of the most compelling modern iconographers of the modern world. She is known for her contemporary sacred art collection. She describes each of her icon paintings as a visual meditation, a process by which she finds answers to the eternal questions she constantly asks herself.
The Sacred Art collection reflects modern life through modern icon painting techniques. Yet, her painting process is rooted in ancient traditional rules of iconography as an icon painter and writer, she often finds her inspiration in the works of the ancient Byzantine iconography painters of Russia, Greece and Eastern Europe. The place where art becomes meditation.
“I have come to see the world as a metaphor, nearly everything which happens to us is screaming to be understood through the eye of spirit, we just need to reflect long enough to hear the message.”