Tróndur Patursson

Tróndur Patursson (born 1 March 1944 in Kirkjubøur) is a Faroese painter, sculptor, glass artist and explorer.

[2] In February 2013 Patursson had an art exhibition at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts;[3] it was an installation called "Migration", featuring approximately 90 of his trademark stained glass birds in the Grand Foyer windows throughout Nordic Cool 2013.

[4] In 1976 he joined Tim Severin in a transatlantic voyage in a replica 6th century leather-hulled currach named Brendan.

[5] The boat was named for the Irish monk Saint Brendan who was said to have made the same voyage centuries before the Vikings and Christopher Columbus.

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