and other ocean micro-worlds
Neil and other members of the Waterways art-science collective had work on display at Glasgow Art Club as part of the group exhibition The Bigger Picture in November 2025, combining origami seascapes with numerical simulations, marine ecology, and group-authored texts. Work on display included Neil’s origami installation Nudibranchs, a variety of North Atlantic plankton, and … Read more
Neil brought a rockpool’s-worth of new nudibranch designs to the British Origami Society convention in Edinburgh, autumn 2024. Not plankton but cute anyway.
Start here if you’re new to origami, or if you just really like whales and penguins. This model is known as the traditional carp in Japan.
Design by Neil, diagrams by Peter. Starts with the traditional whale folded from fish base, and then a few more steps for added bowheadedness.
The northern gannet (Morus bassanus) is the largest seabird in the North Atlantic. They form huge cliff-side colonies and dive from great heights, hitting the water at up to 100 kph in pursuit of small fish. They have shown more resilience to climate change than other UK seabirds, possibly because they dive deeper than most … Read more
Along the North Sea coast of Britain they have been getting smaller as the zooplankton that they eat decline, and the effects are being felt through the entire food web. Not plankton, but fond of plankton! Sandeels, known as sand lances in North America (family Ammodytidae), are slender, silvery fish that are a crucial food … Read more
