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London In The RainLimited 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: 5/10 — Moderate
Classification: Dissociative
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 dissociative imagery — boundary dissolution, figure-ground collapse, and spatial incoherence consistent with REM intrusion.
Neuroaesthetic markers identified: The chromatic key is hyperbolically acidic — yellows and greens that do not occur in London daylight even on the brightest morning; this chromatic exaggeration is a marker of the way the dissociating perceptual system over-saturates familiar scenes; the cyclist figure at centre is dark against the luminous ground, a silhouette without individuating features; the spatial recession is compressed, everything pushed to a single plane; the rain-wet surfaces create a doubling of all objects in reflection, dissociating the scene into two overlapping realities
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 dominated by loosely indicated building facades in yellow-ochre, warm grey, and white, their windows and divisions present as marks rather than described architecture. The foreground is a dark wet surface — near-black and dark umber — reflecting building lights in broad loose strokes. At lower-left, a dark form in deeper red-ochre reads as a phone box or architectural element. The right side carries a teal-blue-grey passage suggesting a receding building face. No figures are clearly resolved. The handling throughout is smeared and diffuse, as if the scene is viewed through glass or the film that coats the eye on waking.
Materials used:
Oil on canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 38 x 38 x 0.1cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#wet ground#abstract city#phone box#london nocturne#ochre facades#diffuse handling#window marks#teal recession#smeared surface
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Original artwork description
Signal Rating: 5/10 — Moderate
Classification: Dissociative
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 dissociative imagery — boundary dissolution, figure-ground collapse, and spatial incoherence consistent with REM intrusion.
Neuroaesthetic markers identified: The chromatic key is hyperbolically acidic — yellows and greens that do not occur in London daylight even on the brightest morning; this chromatic exaggeration is a marker of the way the dissociating perceptual system over-saturates familiar scenes; the cyclist figure at centre is dark against the luminous ground, a silhouette without individuating features; the spatial recession is compressed, everything pushed to a single plane; the rain-wet surfaces create a doubling of all objects in reflection, dissociating the scene into two overlapping realities
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 dominated by loosely indicated building facades in yellow-ochre, warm grey, and white, their windows and divisions present as marks rather than described architecture. The foreground is a dark wet surface — near-black and dark umber — reflecting building lights in broad loose strokes. At lower-left, a dark form in deeper red-ochre reads as a phone box or architectural element. The right side carries a teal-blue-grey passage suggesting a receding building face. No figures are clearly resolved. The handling throughout is smeared and diffuse, as if the scene is viewed through glass or the film that coats the eye on waking.
Materials used:
Oil on canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 38 x 38 x 0.1cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#wet ground#abstract city#phone box#london nocturne#ochre facades#diffuse handling#window marks#teal recession#smeared surface
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