​Mary Jane Miller is an internationally recognized  Byzantine-style iconographer and author living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She is a member of Women Iconographers in the 21st Century, who are preserving the ancient technique of iconography painting. Today, she continues to create, teach, and expand this sacred art using earth pigments as a spiritual visual language that leads to enlightenment.

Miller especially focuses on biblical women and, through her hand, calls on their unheard voices to proclaim their wisdom and love. As an icon painter, her wealth of insight is shared through a tradition that has traditionally been male-dominated. "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 the spirit, we just need to reflect long enough to hear the message".

 

 Her dedication and lifestyle promote a trajectory through spirituality that becomes a visual manifestation of how she understands her own personal journey.

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.

 

Women icon painters, mystics, and healers were seldom heard of in the days of the early church and were often silenced. Today they are speaking. Icons are created through meditation and prayer to tap into and develop the spirit of being fully alive. As a modern Byzantine-style icon painter, Miller joins her voice to other contemporary iconographers who speak and create.