GirlLimited edition print Paper Print
by Ryan Louder
£75.00
From an edition of 120
Size 22.86 x 30.48 cm (unframed)
Original artwork description
Signal Rating: 9/10 — Strong
Classification: Hallucinatory
This painting by Ryan Louder is part of a body of work shaped by his neurological condition — Narcolepsy with REM Intrusion Hallucinations, clinically confirmed via MSLT at Guy's Hospital, London. The work contains hallucinatory imagery — geometric form constants, phosphene-like patterns, and perceptual structures consistent with REM intrusion.
Neuroaesthetic markers identified: boundary dissolution — face dissolves into dark ground at all edges; self-luminous forms in pale facial light; phantom figure quality — subject barely materialises; figure-ground collapse; unstable identities — features slip position; dissociative register (closed, unfocused eyes); form emergence from darkness
These markers are not deliberate artistic techniques but direct visual recordings of what REM intrusion hallucinations look like. The imagery emerges from neurological experience, not metaphor. Ryan has painted over 2,000 works, with over 1,000 originals sold. Each painting in this collection has been subjected to neuroaesthetic forensic analysis to identify and catalogue the perceptual phenomena present.
A face addresses the viewer directly and symmetrically, filling the full height of the small canvas. The skin is pale — a cool pink-white — with the features faintly present but incompletely resolved: eye sockets read as dark smudged pools, the nose bridge a faint ridge, the lips barely differentiated from surrounding flesh. Dark hair falls to either side, merging at the edges with the near-black surround. The transition from face to ground is not a clean edge but a gradual absorption, the flesh tone bleeding into shadow without a boundary. The canvas texture is visible throughout, the paint applied thinly enough that the weave reads as a uniform vertical grain across the entire face.
Materials used:
oil paint
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 12.7 x 17.78 x 0.76cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#small format#dark hair#thin paint#canvas texture#frontal portrait#pale flesh#smudged eyes#face void#symmetric face
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Original artwork description
Signal Rating: 9/10 — Strong
Classification: Hallucinatory
This painting by Ryan Louder is part of a body of work shaped by his neurological condition — Narcolepsy with REM Intrusion Hallucinations, clinically confirmed via MSLT at Guy's Hospital, London. The work contains hallucinatory imagery — geometric form constants, phosphene-like patterns, and perceptual structures consistent with REM intrusion.
Neuroaesthetic markers identified: boundary dissolution — face dissolves into dark ground at all edges; self-luminous forms in pale facial light; phantom figure quality — subject barely materialises; figure-ground collapse; unstable identities — features slip position; dissociative register (closed, unfocused eyes); form emergence from darkness
These markers are not deliberate artistic techniques but direct visual recordings of what REM intrusion hallucinations look like. The imagery emerges from neurological experience, not metaphor. Ryan has painted over 2,000 works, with over 1,000 originals sold. Each painting in this collection has been subjected to neuroaesthetic forensic analysis to identify and catalogue the perceptual phenomena present.
A face addresses the viewer directly and symmetrically, filling the full height of the small canvas. The skin is pale — a cool pink-white — with the features faintly present but incompletely resolved: eye sockets read as dark smudged pools, the nose bridge a faint ridge, the lips barely differentiated from surrounding flesh. Dark hair falls to either side, merging at the edges with the near-black surround. The transition from face to ground is not a clean edge but a gradual absorption, the flesh tone bleeding into shadow without a boundary. The canvas texture is visible throughout, the paint applied thinly enough that the weave reads as a uniform vertical grain across the entire face.
Materials used:
oil paint
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 12.7 x 17.78 x 0.76cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#small format#dark hair#thin paint#canvas texture#frontal portrait#pale flesh#smudged eyes#face void#symmetric face
Ryan Louder
United Kingdom
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Ryan Louder paints dreams in real time. Close to one thousand originals sold over a career spanning more than ten years. Independent AI visual analysis of 873 of his paintings... Read more