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Tony Flowers
was born in 1969, is married and has 2 young sons. Tony has explored many areas of the art world. He trained as a
glassblower at Tasmanian Glassblowers
www.tasglassblowers.com.au and in ceramics at the University of Tasmania. He eventually concentrated on illustration, one of his passions since childhood, and has been successfully illustrating many projects. His work encompasses designing a child-friendly tour for one of the National Museum of Australia’s exhibitions and donating the character, PATCH, for the Paediatric Unit at The Canberra Hospital. Illustrating books and creating characters is how he spends most of his spare time.
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Now busily at work on numerous projects, Tony has a series of children’s books,
Dizzy and Friends, published with Steve Parish Publishing
www.dizzyandfriends.com.au. He is also currently involved with Bitter Beat Publishing, illustrating work for author Pia Santaklaus.
The Crime of the Agent Mariner is due for release April 4th 2006 with more books in the series to follow.
Lilly and Jamaica, cartoon characters created by Tony, are currently being written into stories aimed at the young adolescent reader market, by author Andrew Boswell.
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Tony never stops. Illustration is his passion and his two young sons are often seen out with the chalks decorating the house walls, or joining Daddy with his pastels drawing on the many pads of paper around the home. His sons are the inspiration for the
Dizzy and Friends series, (look at the toddler movements of the Numbat), and continue to inspire him. The illustrations in
Splash! are of his sons and their storytelling times. His dog Lilly and cat Jamaica are the inspiration for the
Lilly and Jamaica series and his wife wishes she had a tail so she could claim she was the inspiration for the Mermaid in
The Crime of the Agent Mariner!
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Tony’s work has been greeted with enthusiasm in Japan with several awards at the Oshima Handmade Picture Book Competition
http://www.iijnet.or.jp/ehonkan/ and
he was invited to hold a solo exhibition and conduct workshops in 2005 which he enjoyed thoroughly and he is even believed to be the first foreigner to run in the Oshima Pair Marathon (only 2km thank goodness!)
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