Signal Rating: 6/10 — 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: figure-ground collapse; boundary dissolution; form emergence; secondary image

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.

Two large sunflowers dominate the centre-left, their yellow petals in thick impasto radiating from near-black disc centres. Surrounding them, a mixed arrangement pushes to the edges — pink roses upper register, a protea or similar form at right, white frothy marks indicating smaller blooms. All of this sits against a deep near-black green ground that flattens space and throws warm yellows and pinks forward with abrupt luminosity. Leaves in dark olive merge at their edges with the background tone. The composition is dense and centrally packed, outer blooms pressing against all four edges of the frame.

Materials used:

Oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 120 x 90 x 0.3cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Flowers and plants

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