Yuri and Katrin Shumakov

Yuri and Katrin Shumakov, an award-winning artist duo, started their origami journey in France in 1989 and have since unfolded their art in a unique, unseen way. Authors of 30+ origami books & 1,000+ designs, they have created the amazing paper world ORILAND featuring incredible kingdoms and have displayed their works in many countries. Their recent exhibit, ORIGAMI CANADA LAND unites fantasy and reality in a whimsical artistic rendition of iconic Canadian sights. Another beautiful and elegant aspect of origami they brought to life is ORIBANA - a marriage of two Japanese arts: Origami and Ikebana. By combining these remarkable art-forms, in early 1990s Katrin and Yuri began to create paper flower arrangements in paper vases and thought up a distinctive name for it - Oribana. Since then they designed more than 50 charming oribana-compositions with a broad variety of origami flowers, leaves and vases.
Visit their Oriland.com to see what origami can be!