These photos were from the Summer 2006 BOS convention. I hadn't been along to any BOS meetings for a while, so it was great to see everyone again. This time, the convention was held in Bristol, in Badock hall. I spent a fortune on Origami supplies, which should last a while. The BOS library is getting bigger and better - if you are not a member, you're missing some great resources.

Paula Versnick

Paula Versnick was the invited guest, from Holland. She is a leading folder in Europe, specialising in several different styles - decorative, action, minimal and modular. She opened the convention with her Alien Love Envelope, shown below in its closed and open state. She also taught a herring-bone tesselation, which was pure torture on the fingers. She gave every guest a couple of presents - an envelope cutter, which is very useful for cutting A4 sheets into squares, and a lovely mini-booklet of her diagrams.
Another guest was Terry Wienert, from F Ciment Pleating Ltd, who gave a talk on fabric folding. His company makes patterned fabric, using folded card and steam to create patterns. Despite being created in the 1920s, many of the pleats were the same design as modern origami tesselations.

There were many different styles of folding in the model display. Paul Hanson created a range of Gerry Anderson models, including those from Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Fireball XL5. Ashgar Malik brought along a number of models, including this marauding T-rex, eagle and frog.


Some of the other models included a Skeleton by Sharon Turvey, Katsuta Kyouhai's duck, folded by Alexandre Jeannier, and Hiromi Hayashi's Gerbera flowers, folded by Emma Tysoe.


Annie Pidel created a series of masks, which look very much inspired by the work of Eric Joisel.



An impressive scene was created by Judith Laing. She folded all of Kuniho Kasahara's Four Seasons Cube, a series of scenes that all fold into cubes, and slot together. Diagrams for these models are in Kasahara's excellent Origami Omnibus.

Nick Robinson and David Brill were both present at the convention, heckling each other at every opportunity. Here is a photo of Nick's fish, and David's modular flexi-cube (which is available as a BOS booklet).

Phil Swainback brought along this paper aeroplane. Joel Cooper's suberb tesselated mask was brought along to the convention in a glass jar, although Joel himself did not attend.

John McKeever folded a Dr Octopus, from Spiderman, and a series of tesselations.





Tony O'Hare created a series of scenes from Bristol, including two ships from the docks, and this church.



As usual, there was the convention phtograph. Just to be different, here is a photo of Robin Macey taking the photograph. There were several classes. Here is David King, teaching a grand piano, and John Smith teaching a Fujimoto tesselation.


Finally, here is my class. I taught a fan-winged dragon, which went down quite well. I'm the one on the left. I'm not sure what the collective term for 'dragons' is, but here is a group of them after the foling session.