We are delighted to announce that the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh will be showing a large scale exhibition of the distinctive landscape paintings of John Busby during the Edinburgh Arts Festival. Featuring many previously unseen paintings, all held by the artist’s estate, this exhibition shows Busby’s avid passion for panoramas and ‘bird’s eye views’ […]
2019 Festival Concerts
In association with the major exhibition of John Busby’s landscape pictures at the Open Eye Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival, the family is pleased to announce two concerts: Wednesday 7 August at 2.30pm St Andrews and St Georges West, George Street, Edinburgh Now the Hungry Lion Roars… A celebration of wildlife in songs and […]
New Additions
OWLS – December 2018 Eight new pictures of owls have been added to the Birds of Prey Gallery.
Aviary Exhibition – RSA, Edinburgh – January 2019
An exhibition of Royal Scottish Academicians reflecting on the significance of birds as a motif in contemporary Scottish art is running early next year in the Academicians’ Gallery of the RSA, The Mound, Edinburgh, and featuring at least three works by John Busby RSA. 19 January 2019 – 17 February 2019 please follow the link to […]
Aldabra print available to order online
The print of Birds on the Lagoon Shore, Aldabra is now available through our online shop. The high quality Giclée prints are printed to order and can be posted to addresses world-wide. If you are interested in any of the original artworks please email us to check on their availability. Writing about his experiences in […]
Aldabra Clean Up Project
The Aldabra Clean-up Project have these, the last complete set of John Busby’s Aldabra lithographs for sale. Please contact the ACUP if you would like to buy any of them. You can follow the progress of the team at Facebook /AldabraCleanUp or at Twitter @AldabraCleanUp You can see other Aldabra paintings and drawings by John […]
Aldabra – then and now
In early 1974 John Busby had the chance to join his friend, the zoologist Bryan Nelson, for a few weeks on Aldabra, a large atoll in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar, between the Seychelles and the African mainland, 9 degrees south of the equator. At the time Aldabra was run by the Royal Society […]
Card stocks running low
If you are looking to have some John Busby cards from this website, do act soon: Mallard Set – only 3 left Seabird Set – only 4 left Collared Dove set – plenty for the moment cost £10 per set including p&p in the UK (£17 for any two sets, £22 for any three) Order […]
‘The Herald’ series
In the late 1990’s John Busby did a series of small ‘greyscale’ watercolours for The Herald newspaper in Scotland. Each was of a single species of bird and was used for the ‘Birdwatch’ column in the Saturday edition. Birdwatch – the ice hunter Some of the articles can still be found in the archive [search […]
Master Wildlife Artist 2009
In 2009 John Busby was honoured by the prestigious Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, USA, becoming their Master Wildlife Artist for that year. The museum has run its flagship Birds in Art exhibition since 1976 attracting the very best wildlife art from the USA and internationally, but a Master is not designated every […]