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 and neck fill the canvas in close-up, the animal facing slightly left of centre. The coat is rendered in pale grey-green and white, with muted olive and blue-grey shadows across the muzzle and neck — not naturalistic colouring but a chromatic register somewhere between observed and phosphene. The muzzle carries a pale pink passage, and the single visible eye is dark and reflective. The upper portion of the canvas — above the mane — shifts to near-black, so the pale head floats upward into darkness rather than sky. The paint is applied with confident impasto marks that describe the planes of the skull without overworking the surface.
Materials used:
Oil paint
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 22.86 x 30.48 x 2.54cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#horse head#floating head#grey-green coat#olive shadows#pink muzzle#dark eye#dark crown#impasto planes#phosphene colouring
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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 and neck fill the canvas in close-up, the animal facing slightly left of centre. The coat is rendered in pale grey-green and white, with muted olive and blue-grey shadows across the muzzle and neck — not naturalistic colouring but a chromatic register somewhere between observed and phosphene. The muzzle carries a pale pink passage, and the single visible eye is dark and reflective. The upper portion of the canvas — above the mane — shifts to near-black, so the pale head floats upward into darkness rather than sky. The paint is applied with confident impasto marks that describe the planes of the skull without overworking the surface.
Materials used:
Oil paint
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 22.86 x 30.48 x 2.54cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#horse head#floating head#grey-green coat#olive shadows#pink muzzle#dark eye#dark crown#impasto planes#phosphene colouring
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