Astrid Andreasen

Astrid Jóhanna Andreasen (born 31 July 1948 in Vestmanna, Faroe Islands[1]) is a Faroese artist, illustrator and postage stamp designer.

[2] In the 1970s she took a job as a therapist in Tórshavn hospital where she worked with mentally handicapped people, teaching them embroidery and other art forms.

[1] Andreasen worked from 1999 until 2016 as a scientific illustrator at the National Museum of the Faroe Islands.

As an artist she is especially known for her textile art works, which are held by the collection of the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands.

Together with her daughter Katrin (born 1971), she produced the altarpiece of the Vestmanna church, a Tree of Life made out of wood and metal.