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artist support pledge

June 9, 2020

Blackbird on berries

Until further notice all our ‘standard mounted’ pictures (those selling at £200 or under) will be sold under the #Artistsupportpledge.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many artists have found themselves without work as teaching, technical support, fairs, and exhibitions have been cancelled or curtailed due to lockdown and social distancing.

The concept of the Artists Support Pledge promoted by @matthewburrowsstudio is quite a simple one. Artists post images of their work on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook etc which they are willing to sell for no more than £200 each, excluding shipping. Anyone can buy the work. Anytime an Artist reaches £1000 of sales, they pledge to spend £200 on another Artist’s work.

Here are the pictures – enjoy! – The <buy now> pictures are available for immediate dispatch and if you would like one of the others, please get in touch and we will advise when they will be ready for dispatch and email a link to a private invoice for your order that you can still pay by credit/debit card.

Aldabra Flightless Rail and chick
watercolour unsigned 12 x 15 cm (in mount 20 x 25) £100 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.25
Aldabra Kestrels
signed drawing 17 x 12 cm (in A4 mount) £100 buy now
Alpine Gentian
signed watercolour 13 x 13 cm (in mount 25x30cm) £130 buy now
baby green turtle swimming by John Busby
baby green turtle swimming
unsigned drawing 10 x 14 cm (in mount 20 x 25cm) £100 buy now
Two Bluetits
unsigned pen and colour drawing 6 x 16 cm in an A4 mount £100 buy now
Bonelli's Eagle in flight
unsigned drawing 9 x 12cm (in mount 20x20cm) £100 buy now
Boxing Hares
unsigned watercolour 16 x 17 cm (in mount 30cm sq) £150 buy now original illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.176
Buzzards in the mountains
unsigned pen and wash drawing 15 x 19 cm in mount 25x30 cm £130 buy now
Capercaillie by John Busby
Capercaillie
15 x 16 cm Pen and wash in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now
Caspian Plover and Lapwing, Aberlady
signed watercolour 1988 9.5 x 17 cm (in mount 25x30cm) £130 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.35
Chamois
unsigned drawing 14 x 20 £130 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.101
Chiffchaff, 'proud songster' by John busby
Chiffchaff, 'proud songster'
13 x 11 cm initialled pen and wash in mount 25 x 20 cm £100
Collared Dove studies
unsigned pen and wash drawings 17 x 17 cm in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now
Conversation Piece by John Busby
Conversation Piece
watercolour, signed on the back 14 x 20 cm £130 buy now Birds in the old Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh
Coots
unsigned pen and wash drawing 9 x 15 cm (in mount 20 x 25cm) £100 buy now
Corn Bunting by John Busby
Corn Bunting
19 x 15 cm Pen and wash in mount25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Corn Bunting singing
unsigned watercolour 9 x 7 cm in mount 20cm sq £75 buy now original illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.171
Crab plovers by John Busby
Crab plovers
14 x 20 cm pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Crane Greeting
unsigned drawing 12 x 17 cm in mount 25 x 30cm £130 buy now
Crested Tit by John Busby
Crested Tit
15 x 18 cm Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Curlew flying by John Busby
Curlew flying
20 x 14 cm signed Drawing in mount 25 x 30 cm £150
Dipper
unsigned drawing with green wash 14 x 14 cm in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now original illustration from The Herald newspaper and in On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.288
Dunlins by John Busby
Dunlins
12 x 19 cm Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm £130
Fairy Tern against the blue sky
unsigned watercolour 11 x 20 cm (in A4 mount) £130 buy now
drawing of a Fairy Tern on a sign by John Busby
Fairy Tern on sign
unsigned drawing 10 x 14 cm in mount 20 x 14 cm £100 buy now original illustration from 'On the Rocks' by Bryan Nelson
Fairy Tern preening by John Busby
Fairy Tern preening
unsigned drawing 12 x 14 cm in mount 20x25cm £100 buy now
Fan-tailed Warbler
unsigned watercolour 10 x 11 cm £100 buy now
Frigate bird
unsigned drawing 10 x 15 cm (in mount 20x25cm) £100 buy now
Frigate Birds and Islets
pen and wash 14 x 20 cm (in mount 25 x 30cm) £130 buy now
Frigatebird by John Busby
Frigatebird in Sky
unsigned drawing 12 x 9 cm (in mount 25 x 20) £100 buy now
Golden Eagle and highland landscape by John Busby
Golden Eagle and highland landscape
watercolour 18 x 14 cm unsigned in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Golden Eagle mobbed by buzzards
unsigned watercolour 15 x 17 cm £130 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.123
Goldfinch (single)
unsigned watercolour 10 x 10 cm in mount 20cm sq £100 buy now
Goldfinch (twin) 3
two unsigned watercolours each 8 x 9 cm in an A4 mount £130 buy now
Goldfinch (twin) 4
two unsigned watercolours each 9 x 8 cm in an A4 mount £130 buy now
Great Grey Shrike by John Busby
Great Grey Shrike
16 x 12 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 30 x 25cm £130
Great Tits on monkeynuts by John Busby
Great Tits on monkeynuts
watercolour 17 x 16 cm £150
Ground Thrush, Christmas Island
unsigned watercolour 10 x 10 cm in mount 20cm sq £100 buy now original illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.118
Harlequin Ducks by John Busby
Harlequin Ducks
14 x 20 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Heather on Loch Lomond by John Busby
Heather on Ben Lomond
14.5 x 15 cm Pen and wash in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now
Honey Buzzard by John Busby
Honey Buzzard
13 x 11 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm £100 buy now
Hoopoe and goat by John Busby
Hoopoe and goat
11 x 13 cm Watercolour in mount 20 x 25cm £100 buy now
Horned (Slavonian) and Western Grebes
signed watercolour 10 x 20 cm (in A4 mount) £130 buy now original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 168
House Martins collecting mud by John Busby
House Martins collecting mud
14 x 20 cm Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm £130 buy now
Humbolt Penguins
unsigned drawing with coloured wash 14 x 13 cm in mount 30x25cm £130 buy now
Imperial Eagle, Bulgaria
unsigned watercolour 13 x 11 cm £100 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.122
Inky Crossbills on pine
unsigned ink drawing 14 x 17 cm in mount 25 x 30cm £150 buy now
Inky Vultures
unsigned ink drawing 14 x 22 cm in mount 25x30cm £150 buy now
Jackass Penguins 1995
Jackass Penguins 1995
signed pencil drawing 15 x 20 cm £150 buy now
Jackdaws and berry pickers by John Busby
Jackdaws and berry pickers
14 x 20 cm Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 illustration from "Birds in your Garden" p46
Jay in tree by John Busby
Jay in tree
12 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 30cm £130 buy now Illustration from 'Birds in your Garden' p28
Jay studies by John Busby
Jay studies
14 x 20 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Juvenile Golden Eagle on nest
unsigned watercolour 18 x 15 cm in mount 25 x 30cm £130 buy now
King penguin brooding young by John Busby
King penguin brooding young
pen and wash 17 x 17 cm £150 buy now Illustration from The Penguins
Lapwing by John Busby
Lapwing
18 x 18 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 30cm sq £150
Lesser Black-backed Gull
initialled drawing 10 x 12 cm (in mount 20x25cm) £100 buy now
Little Goat
unsigned biro drawing 14 x 12 cm in mount 25 x 20cm £75 buy now
Little Grebe
unsigned watercolour 10 x 15 cm (in mount 20x25cm) £100 buy now
Little Grebe 2
unsigned watercolour 8.5 x 11 cm in mount 20 cm sq £100 buy now
Long-tailed Field Mouse
unsigned drawing 7 x 19 cm £100 buy now original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 160
Magpie by John Busby
Magpie
12 x 14 cm initalled Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm £100 buy now
Mallard by John Busby
Mallard
12 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 30 cm £130
Meadow Pipit and Cuckoo chick by John Busby
Meadow Pipit and Cuckoo chick
13 x 11 cm pen and wash in mount 25 x 20 cm £100 buy now
Moorhen by John Busby
Moorhen
unsigned watercolour 10 x 10 cm in mount 20 x20cm £100 buy now
Moorhen and chick by John Busby
Moorhen and chick
watercolour 8 x 14 cm (in mount 20 x 25cm) £100
Mute Swan and Black-headed Gull by John Busby
Mute Swan and Black-headed Gull
18 x 18 cm Watercoloour in mount 30cm sq £150
Osprey with fish
unsigned pen and wash drawing 16 x 17 cm in mount 30cm sq. £150 buy now
Otter, head above water, by John Busby
Otter, head above water
9 x 16cm Drawing in mount 20 x 25 cm £100 buy now illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p362
Young otters feeding
unsigned drawings 5x13cm and 7x13cm (in mount 30x25cm) £130 buy now original illustrations from Lines from Nature p.148
side view of Pied Wagtail walking in the rain by John Busby
Pied Wagtail 'trotty wagtail'
9 x 13 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm £100 buy now
Pochard diving underwater by John Busby
Pochard
13 x 11cm Drawing in mount 25 x 20cm £100 buy now
Ravens standing over dead mouse by John Busby
Ravens and dead mouse
unsigned pen and wash drawing 13x19cm in mount 30 x 25cm £130 buy now Brown-necked Ravens, illustration from "The birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" p150
Red Kite flying above fields by John Busby
Red Kite
20 x 16cm initialled pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm £130 buy now
Red Kite chick
unsigned drawing 11 x 17 cm £150 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.117
Red-footed Boobies greeting display
unsigned watercolour 9 x 12 cm (in mount 20 x 25cm) £100 buy now
Roosting red footed Boobies with relaxed drooping wings against blue sky by John Busby
Red-footed Boobies roosting
watercolour, unsigned 23 x 14 cm in A4 mount £130 buy now
Red-necked Phalarope, female swimming in still water by John Busby
Red-necked Phalarope, female
11 x 13 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25cm £100 buy now illustration from "Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" p 90
Redwing in perched on twig with nesting material in beak by John Busby
Redwing
11 x 13 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 £100 buy now original illustration from Beinn Eighe (Scottish Natural Heritage) p.172
Ringed Plover showing 'broken wing' display with two chicks in foreground by John Busby
Ringed Plover distraction display
unsigned watercolour 12 x 15 cm in A4 mount £130 buy now illustration from 'Looking at Birds' p44
Ringed Plover nesting pair, one standing to shade the nest  by John Busby
Ringed Plover, shaded sitting
9 x 16 cm watercolour in mount 20 x 25 £100 buy now
Rook sitting on branch above country lane  by John Busby
Rook
13 x 11 cm Pen and wash, in mount 25 x 20cm £100 buy now
Scops Owl on lookout branch with full moon and flat desert landscape behind by John Busby
Scops Owl pen and wash
15 x 14 cm Pen and wash in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now
Shapes of Blackbird
unsigned pen and wash drawing 10 x 14 cm (in mount 20x25cm) £100 buy now illustration from Looking at Birds p.17
two female smew swimming on still water by John Busby
Smew, female
14 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 20cm £130 buy now
Snowy Owl spreading its wings around itself by John Busby
Snowy Owl ruffling feathers
watercolour, unsigned 11 x 11 cm in mount 20 x 20cm £100 buy now illustration from Looking at Birds p45
Stellar's Eiders
unsigned watercolour 14 x 21 cm (in mount 25x30cm) £130 buy now
Stork standing on tall nest platform stretching one leg backwards by John Busby
Stork on the nest
13 x 11 cm drawing in mount 25 x 20 cm reserved for SWLA postcard draw
Sunlit Swallow
unsigned watercolour 14 x 10 cm (in mount 25x20cm) £100 buy now
Swallow feeding chicks
unsigned watercolour 11 x 8 cm in mount 25x20cm £100 buy now original illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.168
Tawny Owl 2002
unsigned drawing with pastel 19 x 18 cm (in mount 30cm sq) £150 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.136
Tiger drinking
unsigned drawing with colour wash 10 x 20 cm (in A4 mount) £130 buy now
two tree sparrows standing on the ground by John Busby
tree sparrows on the ground
11 x 13 cm pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm £100 buy now
two tree sparrows sitting in tree by John Busby
Tree Sparrows in tree
16 x 16 cm initialled JB pen and wash in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now
Two Hares
unsigned drawing 10 x 10 cm £75 buy now
Waved Albatross, Galapagos
signed watercolour 17 x 15 cm (in mount 30cm sq) £200 buy now
Waxwings
unsigned watercolour 22 x 15 cm (in mount 25 x 30 cm) £130 buy now
a whimbrel standing on a rock with impression of fields behind by John Busby
Whimbrel
11 x 13 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25cm £100 buy now illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p81
White Crested Grebes, Falklands
signed watercolour 1992 16 x 19 cm £200 buy now original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 175
Yellow-browed Warbler sitting on a twig by John Busby
Yellow-browed Warbler
16 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now
Young 'Saltie'
watercolour, initialled on back 9 x 17 £100 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.93
Young Gannet
unsigned drawing 20 x 14 cm (in mount 30x25) £130 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.54

 

 

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