HorseLimited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

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.

Horse and rider occupy the central third of a canvas otherwise divided into two stark horizontal zones: a dark teal-black lower ground and a band of warm copper-brown at the upper margin, the two meeting without transitional modelling. The horse is in deep teal-grey, its mass built with wide brushstrokes that leave it partially resolved — legs indicated, haunches suggested, head and neck more clearly described. The rider — a slight figure in dark dress — sits upright, holding a thin rod, face markedly pale. Both horse and rider seem to float: no hoofprints disturb the featureless teal plane beneath them. The horizontal copper band above functions as flat backdrop that reads as neither wall nor horizon.

Materials used:

Oil On Deep Edge Canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 91.44 x 121.92 x 5.08cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits

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