The Future Contortion (2020) Original Mixed-media Painting by Ryan Louder

The Future Contortion is an original mixed-media painting on canvas, 102 x 102 cm (40 x 40 inches), by London artist Ryan Louder.

A dense sandy-ochre haze fills the lower register as three foreground figures emerge with different degrees of clarity: a crouching pale form on the left, a luminous central figure holding a cross-like staff, and a dark cloaked watcher to the right. Behind them, an indistinct surge of riders and phantom horses charges across the midground beneath a towering silhouette rising against the far edge. The palette is stripped back to bone yellows, burnt umber, raw charcoal, and near-black, punctured only by two isolated points of cool blue. In the hypnagogic state, scenes assemble out of smoke and memory rather than logical perspective — things happen all at once, urgent and unstilled.

This is a direct visual recording of perceptual dissolution, not metaphor. I have painted over 2,000 works, with over 1,000 originals sold.

Painted in acrylic, ink, charcoal, and oil on canvas in my London studio. Carefully packaged and dispatched with a tracked courier. Any questions, just ask.

Materials used:

Acrylic ink paint charcoal and oil

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.51cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits