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Artist Astrid Andreasen has worked long and hard with her crayons. Her fertile imagination and nimble hands have yet again created a masterpiece. In her illustration the seal pup looks alive and lovable. Astrid is a master of portraying a wide variety of natural subjects, especially those of the sea and the ocean floor.

Over 30 species of seals are found worldwide. In Faroese waters we know of seven species, including the walrus (Odobenus Rosmarus).

Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) is the only mammal with flippers that breeds in the Faroe Islands. Up until the middle of the 19th century, the spotted seal (Phoca largha) also proliferated in the Faroe Islands.

Stamp Details

    One stamp and a booklet with six self-adhesive stamps
    Date of issue: 24 February 2020
    Artist: Astrid Andreasen
    Values: 20,00 DKK
    Printer: Cartor Security printing, France
    Numbers: FO 928

The artist Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir was born in 1950 in the village of Eiði in the Faroe Islands. This is where she grew up and where her interest in the visual  arts began in childhood. In Eiði, she has also developed her own highly distinctive artistic universe as a professional artist.

Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir’s work deals with the lives of ordinary human beings, and in this context the bread can simply represent something as basic as the need for spiritual food common to all human beings.

Old women constitute the main theme in Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir’s art.

She has painted several different versions of them for almost two decades. Here, Sigrun has painted her mother and grandmother, but the precise and simple expression indicates that the motif is also of general human significance - a portrayal of an archetype which resonates all over the world. The wise and caring mother, steeled by the struggles of life, is confident in her belief of a greater meaning and context in life.

The stamps feature the mother portraits: ”Mother Teresa in Eiði” and ”Bread which satiates hunger“, respectively.

Stamp Details

    Two stamps
    Date of issue: 24 February 2020
    Artist: Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir
    Values: 12, 00 and 27,00 DKK
    Printer: Cartor Security printing, France
    Numbers: FO 926-927

Faroe Islands Stamps: The History of Volleyball

Volleyball in the Faroes

Volleyball is not an old sport in the Faroe Islands. Martin Holm was a teacher at the Faroe Islands Teachers’ College and a true pioneer in Faroese sports. He once brought a strange ball and a net to one of his sport classes. This happened in the Fifties and at that time, no one had ever heard about volleyball in the Faroes.

Flogbóltssamband Føroya (Faroe Islands Volleyball Association) was founded in 1980. Until then it had been a division of the Faroe Islands Sports Federation. Since then the development has been rapid and volleyball is now being played all over the Faroe Islands, having become a game of choice by girls and women. Country tournaments as well as trophy tournaments are held for all ages.
Volleyball stamps

The two stamps drawn by Suffia Nón show two different situations in volleyball. One shows a libero throwing himself after a ball. A libero plays in receiving and defense at the back of the field. Libero always plays with a different colour on the blouse than his team players.

On the second stamp, a player hangs in the air ready to smash. The body is like a tense feather, to put so much force into the smash as possible.

Stamp Details

    Two stamps
    Date of issue: 24 February 2020
    Design: Suffía Nón
    Values: 12,00 and 17,00 DKK
    Printer: Cartor Security printing, France
    Numbers: FO 924-925

Faroe Islands Stamps: Mikkjal á Ryggi (1879-1956)

A miniature sheet featuring two stamps celebrates the life of Faroe Islands author, poet and hymn composer Mikkjal á Ryggi.

Mikkjal Dánjalsson á Ryggi was born in the village of Miðvágur on Vágar, 17 October 1879.

Mikkjal is regarded as the foremost portrayalist of traditional Faroese working life in the early twentieth century.

The motif on the lower left hand side of the stamp sheet, is based on two of Mikkjal’s well-known poems: “Áttamannafarið“ (Boat rown by eight) and 7 “Smálombini Spæla” (Little lambs playing). Mikkjal á Ryggi’s only collection of poems, quite appropriately themed around the seasons, was published in 1954.

In 1945, Mikkjal á Ryggi retired as a teacher in Bøur and Gásadalur. His retirement was marked with tragedy since during that same year he became infected with tuberculosis and had to spend the rest of his life at the Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Hoydalar, outside Tórshavn. It was during this long illness that Mikkjal á Ryggi composed most of his hymns.

In all, 75 original hymns were composed while 40 hymns were translated from other languages.

Mikkjal á Ryggi was one of the proponents of using Faroese textbooks and teaching students in Faroese. However, textbooks in the mother tongue were scarce and he therefore undertook the task of writing textbooks for school children.

On 20 October 1956, Mikkjal á Ryggi died after eleven years of illness. His legacy is a veritable gem-studded string of insights into Faroese culture, nature and working life, and the history of the Faroese Golden Age up until the middle of the twentieth century.

His legacy is a string of insights into Faroese culture, nature and working life.

Stamp Details

    Mini-sheet with two stamps
    Date of issue: 24.02.2020
    Design: Anker Eli Petersen
    Values: 17, 00 and 26, 00 DKK
    Printer: Cartor Security printing, France
    Numbers: FO 922-923

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