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Woman Sitting -Limited edition print Paper Print
by Ryan Louder
£75.00
From an edition of 120
Size 22.86 x 30.48 cm (unframed)
Original artwork description
Signal Rating: 7/10 — Significant
Classification: Dissociative
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 dissociative imagery — boundary dissolution, figure-ground collapse, and spatial incoherence consistent with REM intrusion.
Neuroaesthetic markers identified: Portrait rendered in extreme chiaroscuro: face emerges from near-total darkness as a luminous plane; this emergence-from-void structure is the defining visual grammar of hypnagogic face-perception (faces appearing in darkness, partially illuminated); horizontal brushed lines behind the head suggest static or visual noise; profile orientation gives the figure an otherworldly, non-reciprocal quality — she does not return the gaze; her expression reads as absent, consistent with dissociative affect; the painting could represent a face seen in the dark before sleep
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 female figure sits in a chair, depicted in bright white and violet-pink marks against a dense black ground. The figure is drawn rather than painted in the traditional sense — white chalk or oil stick lines delineate the silhouette and the chair structure, with violet-pink passages filling the legs, arms, and torso. The face is a pale smear without features, the head indicated by a rough oval of white. One arm is raised, holding a thin object — possibly a cigarette — at an upward angle. The chair is defined by white linework on black, its form sparse and schematic. The image operates in pure contrast, warm luminous lines on an absorbing dark void.
Materials used:
Oil on paper
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 40.64 x 55.88 x 0.25cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#high contrast#seated woman#black ground#faceless figure#chalk linework#violet-pink figure#cigarette raised#schematic chair#luminous lines
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Original artwork description
Signal Rating: 7/10 — Significant
Classification: Dissociative
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 dissociative imagery — boundary dissolution, figure-ground collapse, and spatial incoherence consistent with REM intrusion.
Neuroaesthetic markers identified: Portrait rendered in extreme chiaroscuro: face emerges from near-total darkness as a luminous plane; this emergence-from-void structure is the defining visual grammar of hypnagogic face-perception (faces appearing in darkness, partially illuminated); horizontal brushed lines behind the head suggest static or visual noise; profile orientation gives the figure an otherworldly, non-reciprocal quality — she does not return the gaze; her expression reads as absent, consistent with dissociative affect; the painting could represent a face seen in the dark before sleep
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 female figure sits in a chair, depicted in bright white and violet-pink marks against a dense black ground. The figure is drawn rather than painted in the traditional sense — white chalk or oil stick lines delineate the silhouette and the chair structure, with violet-pink passages filling the legs, arms, and torso. The face is a pale smear without features, the head indicated by a rough oval of white. One arm is raised, holding a thin object — possibly a cigarette — at an upward angle. The chair is defined by white linework on black, its form sparse and schematic. The image operates in pure contrast, warm luminous lines on an absorbing dark void.
Materials used:
Oil on paper
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 40.64 x 55.88 x 0.25cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#high contrast#seated woman#black ground#faceless figure#chalk linework#violet-pink figure#cigarette raised#schematic chair#luminous lines
Ryan Louder
United Kingdom
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Ryan Louder paints dreams in real time. Close to one thousand originals sold over a career spanning more than ten years. Independent AI visual analysis of 873 of his paintings... Read more