Sleeping ModelLimited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 5/10 — Moderate
Classification: Hypnagogic

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 hypnagogic imagery — embedded secondary images, phantom figures, and forms emerging from within the scene.

Neuroaesthetic markers identified: boundary dissolution; form emergence; phantom figures

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 lies curled on its side across the full horizontal width in a compressed foetal arc. The body is painted in muted greens, ochres, and pale flesh tones that merge with the deep purple-crimson ground beneath, so the boundary between figure and surface is never fully resolved. Hair is rendered in yellow-green impasto that sits apart from the face in colour temperature. The skin across the torso and back carries a mottled, almost mossy texture — not naturalistic flesh but something between body and the material it rests on. The face is partially visible in profile, eyes shut. The ground swirls in directional marks of violet and dark red that pull at the figure from below.

Materials used:

Oil paint On Unstretched Canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 218 x 100 x 0.2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Nudes and erotic

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