Tom Schoonooghe

Tom Schoonoogh was born in 1973 in Antwerpen, Belgium. He studied applied arts and illustration in Antwerp. He likes to create bright colours, heavy non-transparent colors and moving figures. After winning a competition for illustrators organized by the Flemish government and the Editors Association in 1997, he began his career as illustrator.

He illustrates and writes storybooks, draws for magazines, theaters and museums, and creates animated films. From 2001 to 2005 he had his own television program on Ketnet, a children’s channel, where he taught children how to draw. In 2006, Tom went to Tokyo and Osaka for an exhibition on his works. In Japan, ‘Zahra’ (text by Corine Naranji), about a girl living in a refugee camp in Iraq, is very popular. Tom illustrated many other books such as “Peter and the Wolf” and “Feestpark” published by Lannoo which is a book without words about a young child walking in the park with his mother. Tom likes to evocate funny atmospheres full of people and animals. He likes to draw on big walls and act in plays