Tulips (2018) Original Oil Painting by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 5/10 — Moderate
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: phantom figures (dark grasping hand emerges from lower stem cluster — clearly a hand form not a flower or leaf); pareidolic embedding (several flower heads in decomposition read as skulls or compressed faces); boundary dissolution (stems and vase boundary dissolve into ambient ground); secondary image (the hand grasping the stems reads as figure emerging from floral camouflage)

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.

Materials used:

oil paint

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 40.64 x 101.6 x 2.54cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Flowers and plants

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