EagleLimited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 7/10 — Significant
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: Klüver form constants (vertical striations in background field suggesting tunnel/grating pattern); self-luminous forms (bird body radiating against blue); boundary dissolution at wing edges; figure-ground instability

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 bald eagle is depicted mid-landing or mid-strike across the full width of a near-white ground, wings fully spread to both edges of the composition. The bird's body — brown, dark, and weighty — is rendered with impasto confidence; the white head and yellow beak are sharply isolated focal points. Behind and around the wings, the ground carries a dense field of dark red-brown gestural marks that read simultaneously as abstract energy and as the residue of impacted air. The yellow talons appear at lower right, extending forward. The background marks are not sky — they are chromatic pressure, the visual grammar of speed and weight compressed into paint.

Materials used:

Oil paint

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 40.64 x 30.48 x 0.25cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Animals and birds

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