Artist Statement
All of life comes from the unseen energy of God, to be seen in color and formed in creation.
The infinite range of imagination found in sacred iconography has merged with Mary Jane's interpretation of the present. As a female icon painter, Miller attempts to teach others to listen to their own personal mysticism. She believes Byzantine style iconography has the potential to reflect humankind's continual joy and beauty found in the search for spiritual fulfillment.
The best icons are able to communicate a modern day viewer with the stillness that can bring about comfort, revelation, connection or healing.
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. It is enough for her to witness this magnificent tiny world of paint, constantly sharing its own life force and message. Mary Jane is being made whole by the paint which teaches because it exists, as we exist.you