A tree that has been struck but is still standing - still reaching. The lightning is not a past event in this painting; it is a present one, caught mid-arrival. This is the quality Ryan Louder's waking visions often have: a world in the act of happening, not a memory of something already done.
Painted in oil on canvas with the gestural speed that the subject demands.
Ryan Louder is a London-based painter with a clinically verified neurological condition - narcolepsy with non-REM intrusion - that causes waking dream states in which vivid, fully-formed visions are experienced while conscious. These paintings are not imagined; they are observed and recorded in real time as each vision unfolds. Every work carries a provenance that is medically documented and historically rare: the direct visual testimony of a dreaming, waking mind.
Original oil painting. One of a kind. Certificate of authenticity included.
