This Is A View Of Heaven Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
The title is a statement, not a question. When this vision arrived - as Ryan Louder's waking dreams do, fully formed and unbidden - the first thought was not 'what is this?' but 'this is it.' Luminous, abstract, with a quality of light that ordinary daylight does not produce. Painting it was not an act of imagination but of transcription.
Painted in oil on canvas. The surrealist tradition met documented neuroscience.
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.
