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"My Migraine"

Year of submission to the Migraine Art Competition (adult) unknown. Main theme: Aura Second theme: Life 
Tags: Indoors, zigzag, domestic life, female artist, distorted vision, visual disturbance, black and white. Artist note: Title: 'My Migraine'. Artist from the North West.

Migraine Art Competition Collection

Abstract in black, red and yellow

Abstract in yellow with stars

"Pain associated with an attack"

Abstract kaleidoscope design

Black and white silhouette of figure with zigzag aura

Holiday migraine

A day with migraine

"Migraine"

Explosive images associated with aura

Migraine symptoms

Migraine head

Kitchen migraine with kitten

Behind bars

"Why me? Why now?"

Migraine eyes

Clock

"Fortification Spectra. (Spectrum)"

Eye with visual disturbance

Abstract with c-shapes, checkerboard and other visual distortions

Woman with missing vision, surrounded by concerned onlookers

"Form of visual disturbance"

Smiling child with diamond-shaped and checkerboard disturbances

Woman on sofa obscured by c-shape scotoma with black

Landscape with c-shape scotoma and missing vision

Woman surrounded by stars

Abstract aura in green, red and orange

Divided face in sunshine and shade with aura, music and pill bottle

Abstract black and white geometrical shapes and coils with rotational symmetry

Abstract in blue with green rectangles

In the migraine garden

Sunshine shining into eye with foliage and blue stripes into black

"My body during a migraine attack"

Visual explosion and zigzag  aura

Black and white abstract face with lightning, stairs, checkerboard and people

Tree with visual disturbance

Multi-coloured abstract with eye theme

"Pattern"

Spider's web

"The Mask of Migraine: Reverse Image"

On the train

Spider's web in white with orange

Three sided head with jigsaw

Reading with aura

"Journey through Migraine"

"Oh! I wish I was at school"

"No!"

"Sunshine: Enemy or Friend"

Portrait of woman's face with rainbow visual disturbance over right eye

"The Two Faces of Migraine"

Head with pain and aura

Checkerboard with splitting axe

"Sorry Closed for Migraine"

Multiple aura with clock and face half obscured on left

Pencil outline of face with red, black and yellow visual disturbance

Splitting skull releasing monsters

Child attacked by hammer and lightning with lightbulb

Eye with abstract aura

Abstract: yellow spot on black background

Skull with stars

Head and shoulders in landscape with ghostly heads and swirling aura

Face obscured by aura and visual disturbance street scene

"Migraine, Attack, Help, Attack"

Portrait of woman with zigzag aura

Male figure looking at distorted reflection in a bathroom mirror

Portrait of female figure with visual disturbance

Man at work half obscured by visual disturbance

Distorted image of child

Table, chairs and window with checkerboard disturbance

Breakfast still life with black and zigzag aura

A piece of the jigsaw

Clock face with visual disturbance

"A Migraine 'Attack' ''

Easel and stool with checkerboard disturbance

Abstract: jagged shapes with colour

Abstract: C-Shape on brown background

"Absolutely fed-up with pills"

Portrait of woman with zigzags and red ribbon

Figure looking at distorted reflection in mirror, blind spots and halos present

Toilet bowl

Abstract aura line drawing

Portrait of woman distorted by mosaic and zigzag aura

Female figure in blue, red and black with swirls

Woman's face with nails

Covered eye

Woodland scene with spiral aura

Prevented by migraine

Abstract with zigzags, stars and crenellations

Face with hammer, star and spiral

Abstract in pink, red, and grey with yellow zigzag

Domestic interior with c-shaped aura

Rabbits, flowers and aura

Sitting woman inside an eye with red zigzags and yellow dots

Woman in bed with phone

"Ouch", abstract image of photosensitivity

Hand and c-shaped aura

Trapped inside the eye

British Migraine Association bringing hope to despair

"Migraine Spasm"

"Shopping Shimmer"

Abstract eye with kaleidoscope of colour

Circular saw blade with everyday items

Woman in bed with dressing table 2

Woman with traffic and aura

Hands with foil arrow heads

"Representing own impression of visible disturbance"

Window obscured by c-shaped zigzags and visual disturbance

Abstract aura with c-shaped waves

Sunset landscape with lines and zigzag

Abstract with green

"Exploding light through closed lids. During intense pain"

Eye with c-shaped aura

Abstract with eye shape and masks

Boat on the water

Abstract of aura symptoms on navy blue

Plugged in with drummer

Eye surrounded by red waves

"Dizzy Lizzy"

Woman in bed with aura

"A Migrain"

Woman with zigzag aura and bowl

Landscape with visual disturbance

In bed with migraine

"Visual disturbance of before a migraine attack"

"Migraine!"

"Disturbance experienced before the onset of a migraine attack"

From Thursday evening to Friday afternoon

"When I have a migrain I am continually being sick"

Collage. Newspaper columns with circular aura

Chained by migraine

Abstract with bed

Figure surrounded by blue and purple lightning wth red stars

Woman in bed with dressing table 1

Artist's studio with visual disturbance

In bed

Figure with aura

Vomiting figure with triggers

Lonely figure in blue

Mask, pterodactyl, and curtain with zigzag

"The pain associated with a migraine attack"

Blindfolded nude in boat with eyes and snakes

Portrait with aura over left eye

"Storm"

Skull with red arrow in eye

Abstract with blue and red explosion

Crouching while the party continues

Passing on the migraine bauble

"New Life in Christ"

Family life with aura

Forbidden things and kitchen chaos

Enclosed by migraine

"Disco"

"The Five Ages of My Migraine"

"Sorry I can't come have migr"

"How it effects my life two weeks at a time"

"Migraine curbs pleasure"

"This is an incidence which I experienced while workng as a nurse"

In the kitchen with children

"Childhood Memory"

"No Admittance"

"Please Be Quiet. Do Not Disturb"

Lying on the beach

Migraine attack while the party continues

Urban scene with checkerboard

"The Big Sting"

"Tunnel vision"

"Yr 1911: Started with so called sick headache"

Woman's face with landscape, checkerboard starburst and tunnel aura

Surrounded by barbed wire

"The onset of migraine"

A slowly crawling intruder

Traffic jam with aura

"The Pain of Migraine"

Reclining figure in kaleidoscopic aura

Holiday scene with aura

Body distortion

Woman's face with aura in gold

White figure with silhouette face and aura

Man being sick from bed

Portrait of woman with spiral and zigzag aura on black

Kaleidocopic explosing with silver zigzgag

Eye with aura and red zigzag

The heart attacks the head

Figure with zigzag aura in red, black and green

A mother watches her children play

"Looking at a migraine"

Woman holding her head with visual disturbance

Woman with head in hand

"Help"

"My Migraine"

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