FallingLimited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 8/10 — Strong
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: self-luminous forms; Kluver form constants; boundary dissolution; phantom figures

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 white-dressed figure in the upper canvas holds arms extended upward, body leaning back in a posture of surrender or ascent. The dress fans and dissolves into the surrounding field rather than falling under gravity. Around the figure, concentric or spiral bands of colour — red, orange, yellow, teal, green, deep blue — radiate or rotate, filling the canvas with the sense of a vortex centred on the body. No ground, no horizon, no architecture exists: the figure is purely relational to the chromatic field generating around it. The face is a pale, featureless oval. The spiralling marks have mechanistic regularity at some points and expressionist looseness at others, as if observed and then lost.

Materials used:

Oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 70 x 100 x 0.2cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: People and portraits

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