Walking On Summers Day-Limited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 5/10 — Moderate
Classification: Hypnagogic

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 hypnagogic imagery — embedded secondary images, phantom figures, and forms emerging from within the scene.

Neuroaesthetic markers identified: Uniform teal-green wash collapses atmospheric perspective into a single luminous plane; foreground/background boundary dissolves — classic hypnagogic depth-flattening; brushstroke texture reads as phosphene interference across the visual field; pale diagonal path appears to materialise out of the ground rather than recede into it; no figures present — landscape experienced as observer-less, a dissociated viewpoint

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.

The canvas is a single tonal field of teal-green — the distinction between sky, tree-mass, and ground exists only as slightly differentiated brushwork rather than spatial separation. Vertical marks in the upper half suggest tall trees or grasses without describing them; a low band of redder-green marks a middle ground that functions as mild tonal interruption rather than boundary. A pale diagonal line moves from mid-left toward lower right — reading as path, surface, or light — providing no destination and originating from no clear point. No figures are present. The sense is of landscape experienced without a positioned observer: the scene persists without anyone to witness it.

Materials used:

Oil paint On unstretched canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 121.92 x 91.44 x 0.51cm (unframed)
• Signed on the back
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky

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