About Natalie
Natalie Brooks discovered origami at age seven, folding a crane from a page torn from a notebook. The crane was lumpy and asymmetrical. She folded another. Then another. By the time she was ten, she could fold a crane in under a minute and had moved on to modular polyhedra.
Decades later, Natalie is a paper artist whose installations have appeared in galleries, hotel lobbies, and editorial shoots. She teaches origami at community centers and has designed paper craft kits that have been sold in independent bookshops across three countries.
What draws Natalie to paper is its democracy. It is the cheapest, most accessible material in the world, and yet in the right hands it becomes something astonishing. Her tutorials reflect this belief — she never assumes the reader has special tools or expensive supplies. A sheet of paper, she says, is enough to get started.
Natalie lives in a flat so full of paper sculptures that visitors are asked to be careful where they sit.
Tutorials by Natalie
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