Signal Rating: 6/10 — 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; boundary dissolution; Kluver form constants

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 figure — female, light hair, dark jacket — sits just above the lower third with a book open before her, face angled down toward it. From the top of her head fanning outward in every direction, long radiating strokes of cerulean, pale blue, and white burst against the near-black ground, as if reading generates or discharges light. These strokes are energetic and multi-directional — less like hair, more like a radiant event centred on the skull. Below, two banks of stacked books in red, green, blue, yellow, and white form a second chromatic band. The figure is mid-toned against the radiance behind it; the aureole defines her more than her features do.

Materials used:

Oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 70 x 100 x 0.2cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: People and portraits

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