Astrid Trügg was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1972 and in 1991 she graduated from the Utrecht School of Art with a degree in Painting. Inspired by Edinburgh and the Scottish coastline Astrid moved to Scotland in 2003 where she continued her art studies and successfully completed a postgraduate painting course at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh.
Since 2016 she is living in the seaside town of North Berwick where she also has her studio.
Her mixed media works often contain fragments of maps or newspaper cuttings, which combined with paintings of gathered antiques and objects, add a sense of the place to her nostalgic and topical still lifes, life by the sea is also very much an inspiration for Astrid.
She has exhibited regularly in group and solo exhibitions in Scotland and the Netherlands and her first solo exhibition with the Open Eye Gallery was in 2013.