Portrait Of A WomanLimited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

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: figure-ground collapse; boundary dissolution; unstable identities; self-luminous forms

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 bust-length portrait in mixed media — charcoal and pastel on white paper. The subject faces three-quarters toward the viewer, expression composed and slightly guarded, lips just parted. Spectacles with thick dark frames sit across her face, rendered with specific attention to the prismatic colour caught in the lenses: amber, blue-violet, purple — the glasses as much an optical event as an accessory. Skin is built in pale grey-white with cool shadow planes of blue and lavender applied without blending. Hair is a dark solid mass at top and left. Below the jaw the work becomes increasingly linear and incomplete, the body indicated by outline only, with a single thin stroke of pure blue at the lower neck.

Materials used:

Charcoal pastel pencil sanguine chalk

Details:

• Drawing on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 21.08 x 29.72 x 0.25cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits

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