Nerve Blossoms

Seb Gillen · drawings, 2013–

Gallery

All 70 works, in the order they were made.

First Cup

2013–2014 · 9 works

It begins in a hospice room in 2013, on a paper coffee cup. Thick black nets, drawn fast, filling whatever surface was to hand.

Fine Line

2015–2017 · 14 works

The line drops to a hair and starts branching like coral. White and gold on black ground, a single dark node holding the field together.

Full Spectrum

2018–2021 · 12 works

Colour arrives and stays. The same branching logic run through the whole spectrum, mostly on black.

Bodies

2022–2023 · 14 works

The pattern starts taking on bodies — a heart, a trunk, a canopy — and somewhere in here the branching turns into flowing.

Fibre

2024–2026 · 13 works

Current work. Hairline fibres gathering, cinching through a waist and opening out again. Connective tissue rather than signal.

Undated

undated · 8 works

High-resolution versions cleaned up for print, from originals whose date was not recorded.