Dave Brill Biography
Somebody asked 'who is Dave Brill?'. Dave would ask the same question! At different times, Dave has been the Supplies Secretary, Secretary and Chairman of the British Origami Society. This year he retired from being Chairman, and will be a life Vice President. His 'behind-the-scenes' volunteer work for the BOS since 1976 has helped develop origami worldwide and his personal contribution is probably greater than anybody else in the world. He began creating in, I think, 1975. With Max Hulme and Martin Wall, he developed the British style of complex wet folding, combining Yoshizawa's sensitivity with paper with complex technical folding developed in the US by Elias, Rohm, Crawford and others in the 50's and 60's. By the late 70's, Dave was regarded by many as the best creative folder outside Japan. In addition to his expressive animal subjects and human figures, Dave has also created a large number of beautiful modular and geometric designs. His creativity at the highest level in these 2 opposing styles of origami, is very unusual. In 1996 Japan Publications published 'Brilliant Origami' (see the joke?!), a collection of much of his best work, beautifully hand-drawn. In the opinion of many, this is the best book containing the work of one creator, published outside Japan. It's a classic. Buy it if you can! Dave has also traveled many times to origami meetings in Japan, Europe and the USA, and organised many BOS conventions in the UK. His knowledge of origami and origami people is immense. He has also contributed his work to all the important museum exhibitions of recent years. It is not well known that he is an excellent landscape painter – some of you will know that 2 of his sketch paintings are in our apartment. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London. I have known Dave since 1976, and have met him, traveled with him and stayed with him many times. Miri and I have met him together in the US (2002), at a BOS convention (2003) and we have stayed with him in his beautiful 350 year old country house (2001). Dave is very sociable, is full of jokes, laughs and good humour, and loves to talk about origami. He is also very much the 'typical Englishman' – modest, charming, funny, a bit eccentric, polite and doesn't take himself too seriously …but underneath he can be a rebel! As an administrator and as a creator, he is perhaps he is the most important person in world origami and is surely its best ambassador. He is truly the perfect origami person to visit us and I hope everyone is very excited that he wants to come. And ladies …he's available! Paul Jackson
Somebody asked 'who is Dave Brill?'. Dave would ask the same question! At different times, Dave has been the Supplies Secretary, Secretary and Chairman of the British Origami Society. This year he retired from being Chairman, and will be a life Vice President. His 'behind-the-scenes' volunteer work for the BOS since 1976 has helped develop origami worldwide and his personal contribution is probably greater than anybody else in the world. He began creating in, I think, 1975. With Max Hulme and Martin Wall, he developed the British style of complex wet folding, combining Yoshizawa's sensitivity with paper with complex technical folding developed in the US by Elias, Rohm, Crawford and others in the 50's and 60's. By the late 70's, Dave was regarded by many as the best creative folder outside Japan. In addition to his expressive animal subjects and human figures, Dave has also created a large number of beautiful modular and geometric designs. His creativity at the highest level in these 2 opposing styles of origami, is very unusual. In 1996 Japan Publications published 'Brilliant Origami' (see the joke?!), a collection of much of his best work, beautifully hand-drawn. In the opinion of many, this is the best book containing the work of one creator, published outside Japan. It's a classic. Buy it if you can! Dave has also traveled many times to origami meetings in Japan, Europe and the USA, and organised many BOS conventions in the UK. His knowledge of origami and origami people is immense. He has also contributed his work to all the important museum exhibitions of recent years. It is not well known that he is an excellent landscape painter – some of you will know that 2 of his sketch paintings are in our apartment. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London. I have known Dave since 1976, and have met him, traveled with him and stayed with him many times. Miri and I have met him together in the US (2002), at a BOS convention (2003) and we have stayed with him in his beautiful 350 year old country house (2001). Dave is very sociable, is full of jokes, laughs and good humour, and loves to talk about origami. He is also very much the 'typical Englishman' – modest, charming, funny, a bit eccentric, polite and doesn't take himself too seriously …but underneath he can be a rebel! As an administrator and as a creator, he is perhaps he is the most important person in world origami and is surely its best ambassador. He is truly the perfect origami person to visit us and I hope everyone is very excited that he wants to come. And ladies …he's available! Paul Jackson
