Sunday In The ParkLimited edition print Paper Print 
by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 7/10 — Significant
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: Highly anomalous park scene: two ghostly pale lavender figures (human-adjacent but unpigmented, barely differentiated from the green ground) interact with a white donkey/horse-like animal in an impossible pastoral setting; the background tree-mass explodes in violent impasto reds and yellows — colour register inconsistent with observed reality, consistent with hypnagogic colour intensification; the human figures are schematic to the point of archetypal — no facial detail, no individual identity — classic dream-figure abstraction; the animal presence without narrative explanation is a known hypnagogic intrusion marker; spatial scale between figures and environment is inconsistent; the entire scene reads as a memory or hallucination of a park rather than an observed one

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.

Materials used:

Oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 60.96 x 45.72 x 0.51cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Flowers and plants

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