Playing Cards In A Paris CafeLimited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 5/10 — Moderate
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: phantom figures; unstable identities; boundary dissolution; figure-ground collapse

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.

Four figures sit around a table in dim interior light, the ground behind them a deep red-brown. Each face is simplified toward a mask — a few marks for eyes, a line for a mouth, no individuating particulars. The central two are the most resolved: one in yellow, one in teal-blue, both facing the viewer; the edge figures are paler and softer, their features less committed. Wine glasses and a bottle occupy the table without precision. The paint handling throughout is flat and fast — no passage laboured, every form stated once. The warm yellow at table level contrasts with the cool red-dark surround, but neither zone is spatially stable.

Materials used:

Watercolour and acrylic ink

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 40.64 x 30.48 x 0.76cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: People and portraits

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