Mary Jane Miller, Iconographer, egg tempera

22/05/2026

We have written a how-to book. Embossing Metal: Templates and Beginner Techniques Russian and Greek iconographers were the authors of this beautiful technique. Exquisitely embellished halos have been a Byzantine iconographical legacy and tradition for centuries.
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22/05/2026

Fine Art isn’t Passive
Have you ever noticed your heart when it leaps because of a word someone says? Perhaps hearing something as unemotional as creaking floorboards sets your mind to wander through the past remembering a house where you once lived
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21/05/2026

This collection of books on Iconography challenges our understanding of traditional and modern/contemporary arts and the theology within that has endured.
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21/05/2026

In Light of Women is another beautiful representation of images and ideas based on historical and traditional masterworks. Some icons are lesser-known saints or even unnamed.
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20/05/2026

Mary´s books about Iconography offer a deep theologically based discourse on iconography. Catholic, Episcopalian, Orthodox, and traditional Christian perspectives are diverse yet have a commonality in Christ’s teachings.
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19/05/2026

Mary Jane Miller’s Books about Iconography are filled with spiritual imagery that offers contemporary ideas with an old-world feel for the divine.
The images combined with text are fantastic meditations, they speak of bold art and spirituality, while at the same time offering interesting historical reference.
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19/05/2026

Most women active in today’s church have come into contact with those in control who refuse to reframe the outdated “ancient” teachings institutionalized by men. Women are tired of always getting permission from a man.
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18/05/2026

Christian women who feel jaded by the church: don’t turn away from your grief, but face the ways you have been hurt and speak up. For centuries, we were physically seen but not heard, present but confined to areas behind grills, convent windows, or to one side of the aisle.
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18/05/2026

Celestial motifs …those enclosed within starlike or radiant circles. They look like spaceships and how fun and unique. Ancient iconograpers had clever ideas to contemplate vast cosmic encounters

A detail from the 14th-century fresco The Crucifixion in the Visoki Dečani Monastery, dated to around the mid-14th century CE, forms part of a broader Serbian Orthodox pictorial program in which celestial motifs are incorporated into the crucifixion narrative, including a figure enclosed within a star-like or radiant circular form often interpreted by art historians as a symbolic representation of the sun or moon, consistent with medieval Byzantine artistic conventions that used cosmic personifications to emphasize the universal and theological significance of the event rather than literal astronomical phenomena...

14/05/2026

Women icon painters, mystics, and healers were seldom heard of in the days of the early church and were often silenced.
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13/05/2026

This was one of my custom-made projects for a client. Miller's collection of Contemporary Icons is a visual meditation whose roots are in traditional Icon Painting. Mary Jane Miller pushes the boundaries of tradition to expand and include areas where female sinners and Catholic saints were previously limited.

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