Although this website is mostly concerned with John’s watercolours and drawings, he also drew birds in oils and pastels. Here are just a few to whet your appetite. Click on the pictures to bring up the details.
Eiders and Purple Sandpipers
signed oil painting 2007
25 x 38 cm
framed
£1250
How many birds? two, three or more?
Fighting Kittiwakes, Bass Rock
signed oil on canvas
60 x 45 cm
framed
£2950
Kittiwakes St Abbs Head 1, 2003
signed oil on canvas
51 x 61cm
£2250
Kittiwakes off St Abbs Head
signed oil on canvas 1986
46 x 40 cm
framed
£please enquire
Resting waders and gulls
signed oil painting 2004
30 x 40 cm
framed
£1500
Cranes and Whoopers Hornborgasjön
signed oil painting 2000
45 x 60 cm
framed
£2950
Gannets at Hermaness, Shetland 1989
signed oil painting
50 x 70 cm
£2750
This was painted after a visit to Hermaness, Scotland's most northerly gannet colony, while filming for STV's Portrait of the Wild series.
"Mine" Goshawk with Blackbird
signed oil painting 2003
38 x 35 cm
£1500
Garden birds on the Feeder, undated
unsigned oil on canvas
45 x 35 cm
£1750
see blog post
Spring Gathering
signed oil 2014
40 x 65 cm
framed
£2950