Byzantine Icon Painting Technique and Meditation

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Byzantine Icon Painting Technique and Meditation

Join us for a six-day retreat in Byzantine icon painting technique and Meditation where spirit might inspire you in the sacred art of painting in egg tempera. The schedule begins on Sunday evening with introductions and continues daily from 9:00 until 16:30 for the five-week days.

Nevertheless, there is a possibility, if needed and depending on the progress of each participant, to extend the schedule every day throughout the workshop allowing time to finish.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA
HOLY INNOCENTS’ EPISCOPAL CHURCH
OCTOBER Sunday 6th to 11th 2024
contact Rev Bill Murray Phone 404-255-4023 bmurray@holyinnocents.org
Cost 480.00 USD


Where A Sacred Art Becomes Meditation

Byzantine icon painting technique and Meditation have the potential to bring surprising joy and beauty while on the search for spiritual fulfillment through sacred art. Mary Jane Miller lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and has been doing Sacred Art Painting for three decades. As a woman iconographer, she creates images to promote spiritual well-being and contemplate that which sustains us.
 "I have come to see the world as a metaphor, everything which happens to us is screaming to be understood through the eye of the spirit. We simply need to reflect long enough to hear the message". Miller's collections of sacred art are rooted in the traditional Byzantine icon painting technique and Meditation created through prayer and attentiveness. She pushes the edge of tradition in religious art. Today, women iconographers around the world are hosting workshops and their expertise is preserving the tradition as a sacred art form.

Iconographers are comparable to scribes: they depict the Bible story while remaining true to the text and message. Classic Byzantine icon painting technique and Meditation dates back to 300-400 AD. The Orthodox church's visual interpretations of the Christ story and its theology have been perfected by the Greeks, Romanians, and Russians for over 1500 years.

A Window into Stillness retreats include prayer, solitude, materials, and painting along with lunch. Each participant will complete one Icon.

No Experience Necessary

Everyone is welcome to join this Byzantine icon painting technique and Meditation workshop. Mary Jane believes the retreat is a welcome time out from our busy lives. Art students, religious people, contemplatives, and all levels of iconographers will get a chance to focus their interior attention. She emphasizes that no previous experience or knowledge of iconography is necessary to make this prayerful art an enriching experience. This workshop is not just for beginners, we are All beginners All the time.

Participants begin with an introduction to this ancient tradition as a language. Mary Jane says that her retreat isn’t about the icons themselves; it’s about reflection, solace, and fostering a connection with the divine. For her, modern icon painting is a way to focus our energy on something greater than ourselves.

“I offer an opportunity and time for people to come closer to God,” Mary Jane says. “Not church-God or my God or iconography’s God— I mean God, the holy divine energy which is in you, the holy heart and light source of intuition. With time and stillness, the mind will quietly surrender. Iconography is like a window in a wall: if you go right up to the window and push your face up against the glass, you will see more light and a greater vast space that is beyond the confines of the room.

Miller is a full-time iconographer dedicated to egg tempera and the love for spiritual awakening through painting with Mother Earth. Modern icon painting today provides a discipline and spirituality that unfolds with time, a long slow, and rewarding process. After studying iconography for over thirty years, she says it’s an endless exploration of our ever-deepening relationship with the divine. Of course, she doesn’t plan to stop painting icons anytime soon.

For more on Mary Jane Miller, visit http://sanmiguelicons.com/ and http://millericons.com/ Her books are available for purchase through Lulu self-publishing.

Event Coordinator • The Rev. Dr. Bill Murray

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Details

Date
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Time
All Day
Location
805 Mount Vernon HWY NW, Atlanta, GA US 30327
Room
Room # 102

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