John illustrated over a hundred books in full or in part. A fairly comprehensive bibliography was published in his book Land Marks and Sea Wings in 2005. Not usually signed, the artworks would be sent back once the publisher had finished with them. Sometimes these originals would be part of an exhibition accompanying the book, […]
Exhibition ends but…
…the pictures keep selling! All good things come to an end, especially exhibitions. With the pictures sold during the Festival now sent to their new homes in the UK and abroad, the gallery kept a few back and have since sold two more. If you are interested in a ‘second look’ or perhaps missed the […]
On The Daily Telegraph’s TOP 50
Saturday 27th July John Busby: Silent Landscape at the Open Eye Gallery was one of The Daily Telegraph’s 50 best things to see during the Edinburgh Festival and one of only four items in the Exhibitions section. Come and see if you agree!
Silent Landscape Exhibition
The Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh showed a major 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 showed Busby’s avid passion for panoramas and ‘bird’s eye views’ undertaken during his prolific career. Landscape has always been […]
Landscape Looking
John Busby taught for thirty years at the Edinburgh School of Art so I was not surprised to find this handout amongst his papers. Created for his third year Painting and Drawing students it tries to get them to see beyond the merely visual, to really look, with understanding, at the processes that form the […]
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 ran in early 2019 in the Academicians’ Gallery of the RSA, The Mound, Edinburgh, and featured three works by John Busby RSA, including this watercolour of ‘Gannets on the Bass’ which is now sold. 19 January […]
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 […]