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Húsagarði Janus á
(b.1977)
«Moss Mollis’ journey»
«Ferðin hjá Mosamollis»

Janus á Húsagarði was born in Tórshavn on December 13, 1975. He has been drawing since he was a little boy. He knows this, because he once met someone he went to kindergarten with who asked him if he still drew as much. When Janus finished school he worked on the ferry Norrøna for six years, or rather six summers, in winter he would go backpacking, especially in Asia. He would draw wherever his travels took him and he gained much inspiration from the places he visited.

Since then, Janus has learnt the carpenter trade and has lived in the Faroese countryside for many years, but now he has moved to Tórshavn with his fiancé and two children.

Janus now works as a carpenter, but he spends most of his spare time drawing. It is his dream to be able to spend more time on drawing and painting as well as lathing and carving wooden objects.

«Moss Mollis’ journey» (2008) is his first published book. He has previously illustrated Mín Jólabók as well as a picture book. In a short introduction Janus á Húsagarði says the story is about one of the small trolls in the Faroes that can stand the sun, a fact which enables it to travel around the islands at will. In richly water-coloured pictures the small troll Moss Mollis travels around the islands like another Niels Holgarsson, Selma Lagerlöf’s Swedish boy, though not sitting on the back of a goose. The journey commences at the bottom of the ocean where Moss Mollis picks up a pearl from an open horse mussel. With this pearl it travels across the country on the back of a gannet, of a horse, of a whale, of a crow and of a ram until it finds its darling troll who gets the pearl and who sits at his side in the moonlight watching the sea.

Denmark. Faroe Islands, 2010, Moss Mollis’ journey

Denmark. Faroe Islands, 2010, Moss Mollis’ journey