Nerve Blossoms

Seb Gillen · drawings, 2013–

Nerve Blossoms

2013–2021 · 44 works

Branching. A nerve cell's arbour, drawn one line at a time — thick black nets that thinned over four years into hairline dendrites, then broke into colour.

First Nets

2013–2014

Thick black nets laid down fast. High contrast, coarse, unafraid. Everything that came later is folded up in here.

Fine Dendrites

2016–2018

The line thins to a hair and starts branching like coral. White and gold on black; a single node holding the field together.

Chromatic

2018–2021

Colour arrives all at once. The same dendritic logic, run through the full spectrum on black ground.

Masters

undated

Cleaned high-resolution versions, built for print.

Retia Mirabilia

2022–2026 · 26 works

Flowing. The wonderful net — the branches became fibres, gathering and cinching through a waist and opening out again. Connective tissue, not signal.

Hearts & Trees

2022–2023

The net starts taking on bodies — a heart, a trunk, a canopy. The hinge between the branching work and the flowing work.

Fascia

2023–2026

Branches become fibres. Hairline strands gather, cinch through a waist, and open again. Muscle and connective tissue, not nerve.