Some paintings announce themselves. This one has always done exactly that - it enters a room before you have had a chance to prepare. The colour, the movement, the sheer forward energy of it. Ryan Louder painted this responding to a waking vision that arrived with the same quality: unreasonable brightness, impossible warmth, the specific joy that only comes from a state of consciousness that has briefly escaped its ordinary constraints.
Ryan has noted: 'It always makes me smile when I see it.' That is the highest review a painting can receive from its maker.
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.
