In A World (2020) Original Oil Painting by Ryan Louder

In A World is a monumental original oil painting on linen canvas, 203 x 178 cm (80 x 70 inches), by London artist Ryan Louder. A wall-filling hypnagogic scene — crowds of phantom figures, electric cyan light against darkness, and forms surfacing everywhere you look.

This painting is part of a body of work shaped by my 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 present: the entire surface is populated with densely packed phantom figures — faces, demons, grasping hands; self-luminous forms in electric cyan against darkness, characteristic of REM phosphene colouration; figure-ground collapse throughout — no stable negative space; chimeric fusion of figures with the environment at every boundary.

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. I have painted over 2,000 works, with over 1,000 originals sold.

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Materials used:

Oil paint

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 203.2 x 177.8 x 0.76cm (unframed) / 228.6 x 228.6cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits