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Leonard CohenLimited 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: Face painted in fractured blue-violet with yellow-green eyes that are the only warm focal points in an otherwise cold image — the chromatic isolation of the eyes produces the fixed-gaze quality reported in hypnagogic face intrusions; the portrait is executed on raw or white ground with gestural purple-blue impasto that breaks the face into planes reminiscent of pareidolic image formation; the hair dissolves into background marks so the face appears to coalesce from ambient noise; the handling suggests the image was received rather than constructed — the characteristic phenomenology of hallucinatory portraiture
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 male figure in a blue coat and wide-brimmed blue hat occupies the centre of a very dark near-black ground, rendered in broad impasto marks of cobalt, ultramarine, and dark brown-black. The face is turned downward, chin nearly touching the clasped hands or instrument held below it — the gesture is of absorption or prayer. The face itself is the most resolved element: warm ochre flesh, the features indicated with economy. Hair and hat dissolve into the dark surround at their upper edges. The dominant blue of the coat creates a volume of colour within the darkness — not luminous so much as dense, holding the figure together where the dark ground would otherwise claim it.
Materials used:
Oil paint.
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 30.48 x 25.4 x 0.51cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#leonard cohen#blue hat#dark ground#clasped hands#absorbed figure#cobalt coat#downward pose#ochre face#dense blue
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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: Face painted in fractured blue-violet with yellow-green eyes that are the only warm focal points in an otherwise cold image — the chromatic isolation of the eyes produces the fixed-gaze quality reported in hypnagogic face intrusions; the portrait is executed on raw or white ground with gestural purple-blue impasto that breaks the face into planes reminiscent of pareidolic image formation; the hair dissolves into background marks so the face appears to coalesce from ambient noise; the handling suggests the image was received rather than constructed — the characteristic phenomenology of hallucinatory portraiture
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 male figure in a blue coat and wide-brimmed blue hat occupies the centre of a very dark near-black ground, rendered in broad impasto marks of cobalt, ultramarine, and dark brown-black. The face is turned downward, chin nearly touching the clasped hands or instrument held below it — the gesture is of absorption or prayer. The face itself is the most resolved element: warm ochre flesh, the features indicated with economy. Hair and hat dissolve into the dark surround at their upper edges. The dominant blue of the coat creates a volume of colour within the darkness — not luminous so much as dense, holding the figure together where the dark ground would otherwise claim it.
Materials used:
Oil paint.
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 30.48 x 25.4 x 0.51cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#leonard cohen#blue hat#dark ground#clasped hands#absorbed figure#cobalt coat#downward pose#ochre face#dense blue
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