Cat By The Eucalyptus TreeLimited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 6/10 — Significant
Classification: Hypnagogic

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 hypnagogic imagery — embedded secondary images, phantom figures, and forms emerging from within the scene.

Neuroaesthetic markers identified: Foliage rendered in explosive, fractured colour — reds, blues, and purples far exceeding naturalistic palette, matching hypnagogic chromatic amplification; light rays painted as solid chromatic shafts piercing downward — phosphene-like light intrusion into visual field; solitary small black cat figure at base anchors the scene as the single stable 'known' element in swirling hallucinatory environment; tree trunk monolithic and central, echoing the lighthouse motif — single fixed form amid perceptual chaos; spatial recession distorted — foreground and deep background feel equidistant

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 massive tree trunk dominates the vertical centre, rising from a tiled foreground through a forest interior. At the base, a small black cat sits with its back to the viewer — the single stable, fully resolved element in the composition. Around it the forest dissolves: reds and blues in the upper canopy, pale blue-grey light shafts cutting diagonally down, dark trunks that do not behave as solid objects but as chromatic events. The red and blue markings in the upper register exceed any observed foliage. The tiles at bottom are the only horizontal plane with structural logic; everything above belongs to a different perceptual register.

Materials used:

Oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 45 x 65 x 0.2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky

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