Intense Visual Distortions: A Presentation by Artist Bethany Noël

July 26th, 1-2pm

Cape Cod Museum of Art

$15

Bethany Noël is a New England-based artist and painter whose work captures the intense visual distortions of her migraines and the emotional resilience of her relationship with nature. Included with paid admission, FREE with membership.

Bethany Noël is a New England-based artist and painter whose work captures the intense visual distortions of her migraines and the emotional resilience of her relationship with nature. Her paintings are acrylic, chalk pastel, and gesso on canvas and rely on her personalized approach to divisionism techniques.

They reflect the symptoms of chronic migraines, including ocular aura and a plethora of Alice-in-Wonderland effects (e.g., micropsia, macropsia, pelopsia, and teleopsia). Clinically, ocular aura is a neurologic artifact of migraine; experientially, it superimposes a fractal vision of color, light, and darkness over a person’s vision.

Bethany’s work delights in the eerie joy of this otherworldly vision, finding beauty despite unabating pain and giving visibility to an invisible disease.