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Aldabra

“One becomes part of a landscape saturated by heat and one walks continually among weathered fossils of former life, the sculptural creativeness of the forces of erosion.  How closely the worn away champignon and the growing water vapour of clouds resemble each other.” John Busby, writings

A haven for wildlife in the Indian Ocean, Aldabra is now under the protection of the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF). In 1974 when John Busby and his friend, the zoologist Bryan Nelson, were there for 8 weeks the atoll was leased by the Royal Society in London as a scientific research station. John was able to draw and paint the birds, crabs, sea turtles and giant tortoises that abounded on the island while the scientists did their research. He wrote about his time there in his book Land Marks and Sea Wings  (see also the post Aldabra then and now).

On his return John also created a series of lithographic prints, which he then coloured by hand. There are only a few of these prints left, and only one full set which we are pleased to have given to the Aldabra Clean-up Project to enable them to raise money to remove and recycle the plastic waste that washes up on Aldabra’s shores.

The giclée print of Birds on the Lagoon Shore, Aldabra is available to order here If you would like to purchase any of the other pictures, please email us. We will also donate 25% of the purchase price of pictures bought from this Aldabra gallery to the Aldabra Clean-Up Project.

Fairy Tern against the blue sky
unsigned watercolour 11 x 20 cm (in A4 mount) £130 buy now
Birds on the lagoon shore, Aldabra 1977
signed watercolour 43 x 53 cm £900 framed
Red-footed Boobies greeting display
unsigned watercolour 9 x 12 cm (in mount 20 x 25cm) £100 buy now
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
Dispute between Pied Crows and Kite (watercolour)
watercolour 13 x 25cm illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.189 £130
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
unsigned drawing 12 x 14 cm in mount 20x25cm £100 buy now
drawing of dispute between Pied Crows and Kite by John Busby
dispute between Pied Crows and Kite, Aldabra
drawing 11.5 x 25 cm £100 "Two pied crows eventually drove off the black kite: egret spectators drawn to the scene" JB
Land Marks and Sea Wings by John Busby
Land Marks and Sea Wings 2005
published 2005 by The Wildlife Art Gallery, Lavenham shop BOOKS
Indian Ocean, Aldabra by John Busby
Indian Ocean, Aldabra
96 x 102 cm signed 1974 Oil on canvas, £ please enquire "I carry in my mind’s eye the colours of the Indian Ocean, the towering cumulous skies, the drama of storms enacted between stage curtains of rain."
Giclée print of Birds on the Lagoon Shore, Aldabra by John Busby
Giclée print of Birds on the Lagoon Shore, Aldabra
A Giclée Art Print on quality paper 35 x 50cm (approx 14" x 20") £80 + p&p

Pictures with a <buy now> link are available from our online shop. The others are also for sale but may take longer to send to you. Please contact us about them.

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