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Icon Painting in Two Techniques

                      HACIENDA SANTA CLARA

       February 1 to 7

Monday to Sunday =Cost includes room and three meals a day at the Hacienda. Materials and instruction. Director Carol Hopkins: (777) 328-095 & (619) 840-5154 Carolhop1@aol.com

Carol will gladly send you the itinerary and shuttle from the airport if needed.  $2,000.00 per person

Icon Painting in our Studio, Mexico

Mary Jane Miller will be offering private coaching in San Miguel Allende. Morning instruction and access to the studio every afternoon. By the week or for a month, depending. The week-long intensive includes materials and resources in her Studio . The cost is 420.00 USD a week. Scheduling is flexible room and board are not included.

Thursdays are open studio days. Artists and others are invited to come and play in the dirt, explore iconography, and discuss ideas happening in the spirit.

For online consultations, 25.00 an hour, contact me.

Icon Painting Workshop Mary Jane Miller

Monesterio de La Soledad

November 9 to 13, 2026

For Cergy and Monks only and in Spanish 

The cost for our five-day week with the Benedictine Monastic community La Soledad and the Icon Painting Workshops includes a private room and meals eaten in silence with the monks.  This retreat is for clergy, priests, and religious people only. The Soledad is a cloistered community. You are welcome to gather a group of lay people at a later date from your own parish community, and we can set the dates.  https://www.monasteriolasoledad.org/

Cost 580.00 USD

Mary Jane Miller Workshops

About our Iconography Workshops

During Contemplative Iconography Workshops, participants complete painting an icon in egg tempera. The keys for preserving this ancient technique are housed in prayer and spirituality. Your created image when finished lives on as a call to beauty and meditation. Miller’s Iconography Workshops are valuable for the time and dedication it takes to create an image in egg tempera. The participant listens to the heart and the process raises our consciousness.

The completion of an icon is an organic and dynamic process. Contemplative Icon painting workshops are designed to merge the heart and mind with your contemporary brush strokes. The creation of each icon is a spiritual journey steeped in tradition and culture passed down from the Byzantine Era. The sacred stone, rock, and dust of the Earth are full of color and texture and mixed with egg yolk. The act of moving small particles of our planet Earth remind us of the beauty of creation and its vast diversity in shape and form.

The Medium

The medium we use in the iconography  workshops is traditional egg tempera, natural earth pigments and gold leaf on a wooden board.  Read blog posts for more information about the ancient technique of Icon Painting and details about our upcoming iconography workshops.

All Skill Levels

We are open to everyone’s unique artistic experience and celebrate every spiritual background, including all practices. Iconography workshops are taught step by step with group participation. Individual instruction or small groups are available by request. Everyone is welcome.