Astrid Andreasen

Astrid Jóhanna Andreasen (born 1948 in Vestmanna, Faroe Islands) is a Faroese textile and graphical artist, marine researcher and postage stamp designer. As a scientific illustrator, she specialises in marine animals.

Early in her career she produced illustrations for collections of her father's poetry. Then in 1968 she entered a vocational school in Kerteminde in Denmark to become a teacher of embroidery. In 1970 she took a job as a therapist in Tórshavn hospital where she worked with mentally handicapped people, teaching them embroidery and other art forms.

From 1982 she learned scientific illustration at the Academy of Arts in Århus, and became illustrator specialising in marine animals at the Jerlesborg School in Tjarnö, Sweden in 1990. She is currently the only artist at the Faroese Natural History Museum, and has gained international recognition through illustrations she has produced for Postverk Føroya to use on many series of postage stamps.

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Fish

Leafhoppers

Date of issue: 6 February 1995.

Raven

Date of issue: 12 June 1995.

Invasion birds

Mushrooms of the Faroes

Invasion Birds '97

Date of issue: 17 February 1997.

edentary Birds I

edentary Birds II

Molluscs

Date of issue: 11 February 2002Text on stamps.fo
* [http://www.stamps.fo/default.asp?catalog%5Fname=Frim%E6rker&category%5Fname=2002&product%5Fid=409 Molluscs]

Art on Posters

Date of issue: 14 April 2003

torm Petrel

Deepwater Fishes

ources of information

Article based on information on the corresponding pages of [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Andreasen German Wikipedia] and [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Andreasen French Wikipedia] .These two pages quote the following sources:
* [http://www.art.fo/dk/faroese_artists/astrid_andreasen.php Listasavn Føroya - Kunstmuseum der Färöer] fo icon
* [http://www.nordlysid.com/default.asp?show=page&id=2505 Nordlysid.com - Astrid Andreasens Corner] en icon