Background
Early in her career she produced illustrations for collections of her father"s poetry.
Early in her career she produced illustrations for collections of her father"s poetry.
As a scientific illustrator, she specialises in marine animals. 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. 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. Sedentary Birds I
Sedentary Birds II
Molluscs
Date of issue: 11 February 2002
Text on stamps.fo
Molluscs
Art on posters
Date of issue: 14 April 2003
Storm Petrel
Deepwater Fishes.