Bill Flowers (born in 1963, in Tasmanian, Australia) an Australian painter, printmaker, cartoonist, animator & snake wrangler who lives in Ulverstone, Tasmania. The Lowbrow artworks of Flowers consist of wildlife based works and cartoon animations.
Flowers has a series of online short films called 'The Snake Artist' where he gets close to snakes and other wildlife to draw and paint them. This often involves a certain amount of risk of being bitten by his subjects. Flowers is the first artist to sketch a Tasmanian devil face to face.
Flowers was a key figure in the Australian comic art scene of the 1990s. Flowers created 'The Cat' for Southern Aurora Comics and 'Father Rice the fearless vampire slayer' The Father Rice comics went on to be short films for the Off Planet Films 'Drakenstien' and 'Albino Santa Cop'.[1] [2]
Bill Flowers(II) and Tom Priestley developed a style of animation that lead to winning an Australian film industry competition 'Reinventing the Reel' in 2001. Flowers and Priestley have taken out first place in 2004 Trasharama A-Go-Go.[3] Flowers is friends with snake wrangler Brian Bush and appears with him in one of the The Snake Wranglers documentaries for National Geographic. Other appearances include Animal Planet's Devil Dairy and the Snake Crusader.