Astrid Andreasen
Astrid Jóhanna Andreasen 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.Stamps
Fish
Leafhoppers
Date of issue: 6 February 1995Raven
Date of issue: 12 June 1995.Invasion birds
Mushrooms of the Faroes
Invasion Birds '97
Date of issue: 17 February 1997.Sedentary Birds I
Sedentary Birds II
Molluscs
Date of issue: 11 February 2002
Text on stamps.fo
Date of issue: 14 April 2003Storm Petrel
Deepwater Fishes
Other Works
