HorseLimited 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: 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: self-luminous forms; chimeric fusion; boundary dissolution; figure-ground collapse; unstable identities
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 horse's head is depicted in extreme close-up against a mid-value turquoise-blue ground that fills the canvas entirely. The animal faces slightly left, the muzzle and lower jaw occupying the lower third. The coat is very dark — near-black brown — with a bridle or halter strap of lighter leather-pink crossing the muzzle. One eye is visible at upper left, showing a small dark iris and a faint pink highlight at the eye's inner corner. The turquoise ground, flat and uniform, makes no effort at spatial plausibility — it is a colour field against which the dark horse head is set as an object, not a landscape. The contrast is stark: warm dark form on a cool saturated flat ground.
Materials used:
Oil on canvas
Details:
- Ink drawing on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 12.7 x 17.78 x 0.25cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Animals and birds
Tags:
#horse head#flat colour#frontal portrait#dark coat#single eye#turquoise ground#extreme crop#leather halter#cool contrast14 day money back guaranteeLearn more
Original artwork description
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: self-luminous forms; chimeric fusion; boundary dissolution; figure-ground collapse; unstable identities
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 horse's head is depicted in extreme close-up against a mid-value turquoise-blue ground that fills the canvas entirely. The animal faces slightly left, the muzzle and lower jaw occupying the lower third. The coat is very dark — near-black brown — with a bridle or halter strap of lighter leather-pink crossing the muzzle. One eye is visible at upper left, showing a small dark iris and a faint pink highlight at the eye's inner corner. The turquoise ground, flat and uniform, makes no effort at spatial plausibility — it is a colour field against which the dark horse head is set as an object, not a landscape. The contrast is stark: warm dark form on a cool saturated flat ground.
Materials used:
Oil on canvas
Details:
- Ink drawing on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 12.7 x 17.78 x 0.25cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Animals and birds
Tags:
#horse head#flat colour#frontal portrait#dark coat#single eye#turquoise ground#extreme crop#leather halter#cool contrast
