GirlLimited edition print Paper Print
by Ryan Louder
£75.00
From an edition of 120
Size 22.86 x 30.48 cm (unframed)
Original artwork description
Signal Rating: 9/10 — Strong
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: boundary dissolution — face dissolves into dark ground at all edges; self-luminous forms in pale facial light; phantom figure quality — subject barely materialises; figure-ground collapse; unstable identities — features slip position; dissociative register (closed, unfocused eyes); form emergence from darkness
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 face fills the upper half of a vertically oriented canvas, set within a vortex of pink-white paint that spirals outward from the figure in broad arced strokes. The face itself is rendered with relative specificity — grey-blue eyes open and directed outward, dark brows, a hand raised to support the chin — but the neck and shoulders dissolve instantly into the swirling pale surround. A dark passage at the lower centre interrupts the warmth without explanation. The swirling marks create a cocoon or aureole effect, as if the face is the still point of a rotating field. The gaze is neutral, steady, and direct, which sits in unresolved tension with the instability of everything surrounding it.
Materials used:
Oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 20.32 x 27.94 x 1.27cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#direct gaze#face emerging#figure dissolution#chin-resting pose#pink aureole#white vortex#grey-blue eyes#pale flesh#contained instability
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Original artwork description
Signal Rating: 9/10 — Strong
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: boundary dissolution — face dissolves into dark ground at all edges; self-luminous forms in pale facial light; phantom figure quality — subject barely materialises; figure-ground collapse; unstable identities — features slip position; dissociative register (closed, unfocused eyes); form emergence from darkness
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 face fills the upper half of a vertically oriented canvas, set within a vortex of pink-white paint that spirals outward from the figure in broad arced strokes. The face itself is rendered with relative specificity — grey-blue eyes open and directed outward, dark brows, a hand raised to support the chin — but the neck and shoulders dissolve instantly into the swirling pale surround. A dark passage at the lower centre interrupts the warmth without explanation. The swirling marks create a cocoon or aureole effect, as if the face is the still point of a rotating field. The gaze is neutral, steady, and direct, which sits in unresolved tension with the instability of everything surrounding it.
Materials used:
Oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 20.32 x 27.94 x 1.27cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#direct gaze#face emerging#figure dissolution#chin-resting pose#pink aureole#white vortex#grey-blue eyes#pale flesh#contained instability
Ryan Louder
United Kingdom
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Ryan Louder paints dreams in real time. Close to one thousand originals sold over a career spanning more than ten years. Independent AI visual analysis of 873 of his paintings... Read more