20 Optical Illusion Paintings by Alex Garant Featuring Double-Eye Portraits
Optical Illusion Paintings by Alex Garant bring traditional portraiture into a deliberately disorienting space. The Canadian artist builds faces through colourful patterns and duplicated features, often placing three or four pairs of eyes across a single portrait. The effect makes each face feel familiar and difficult to read at once, encouraging viewers to pause and look again rather than taking in the image in one quick glance.
Garant works primarily with oil paint and is known as the ‘Queen of Double Eyes,’ a fitting nickname for the repeated-eye motif that shapes much of this collection. She studied visual arts at Notre Dame De Foy College before settling in Toronto, Canada, where she works. Her portraits gained attention on social media, helped by the immediate visual tension created through layered colour, repeated forms, and facial details that seem to shift as the viewer focuses.
This gallery brings together 20 Optical Illusion Paintings by Alex Garant, highlighting the repeated features and colourful portrait approach described in her work. Take your time with the collection below—the doubled and tripled details make a straightforward look feel anything but simple.
Illusion Painting by Alex Garant
