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Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Birdwatching 75 years ago

May 19, 2020

Anyone in or around Menston, Yorks, like to re-create this birdwatching walk? It is part of a larger map drawn by John as a teenager in the late 1940’s. Swallows, cuckoos, linnets, willow warblers, skylarks all there then.  What would we find today? See original post here

Filed Under: Biography, Birds, Blog, Early Works

New sets of cards

March 23, 2020

Just arrived. Four new sets of cards featuring several of the pictures in Lines from Nature. All are 6″sq (15cm sq) with an envelope and with an individual compostable wrapper.  They are blank inside for your own message. Shop for CARDS I have grouped the twenty cards into sets of five each, by general subject […]

Filed Under: Blog, Publications

Book illustrations

January 29, 2020

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, […]

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Exhibition ends but…

November 4, 2019

Landscape 67, 1967

…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 […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions

On The Daily Telegraph’s TOP 50

July 28, 2019

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!  

Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: Daily Telegraph, Edinburgh Festival, exhibitions, publicity

Silent Landscape Exhibition

July 27, 2019

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 […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Landscapes Tagged With: exhibition, landscapes, oils

Landscape Looking

July 27, 2019

Handout on Looking at Landscape by John Busby

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 […]

Filed Under: Early Works, Landscapes Tagged With: ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, landscapes, teaching

Aviary Exhibition – RSA, Edinburgh – January 2019

December 5, 2018

Gannets on the Bass 1987

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 […]

Filed Under: Birds, Exhibitions

Aldabra print available to order online

October 1, 2018

Giclée print of Birds on the Lagoon Shore, Aldabra by John Busby

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 […]

Filed Under: Birds, Blog Tagged With: Aldabra

Aldabra Clean Up Project

September 8, 2018

Lithoprint, Sacred Ibis by John Busby

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Aldabra

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