David Brill 
California adventures
The September 2026 opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles was the spur for our first visit to Southern California. The Lucas Museum now owns the Lamb Panorama, an extraordinary 50 metre long watercolour painting by my forebears John Lamb Primus and John Lamb Secundus, who were my great-great grandfather and […]
Origami Camp Puyuan 2025: D’nA in PRC
During 2021, Pan Hang, a Chinese events organiser and origami enthusiast, asked me teach at a Chinese on-line convention held that summer, and of course I accepted. During that virtual event I enjoyed teaching and talking with Chinese folders. Later, Pan Hang hinted at the chance for me to visit China in the future… Pan […]
Noah’s Ark touches dry land…
In the early days of my origami history, I enjoyed putting together collections of models to make scenes: I assembled a Fox Hunt, a Lion family, and St George at the Dragon, as well as others less successful. During a spring clean of my archives, I’ve discovered a box labelled Noah’s Ark, which I’d almost […]
Bull’s Head from La Luna di Carta
I’ve recently completed a full rework of this design, which emerged during a memorable time spent in Italy in 1987. Exhausted after helping to organise the 20th anniversary BOS convention in London, I was sorely in need of a holiday, and the prospect of time with origami pals in Padua proved irresistible. Also present at […]
