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Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Birds of Prey

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.

Aldabra Kestrels
signed drawing 17 x 12 cm £100 buy now
Barn Owl studies
unsigned watercolour 18 x 16 cm in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now
Bonelli's Eagle in flight
unsigned drawing 9 x 12cm (in mount 20x20cm) £100 buy now
Bonelli's Eagle sketches 1996
unsigned drawing 24 x 22 cm £350 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.127
Bull Sealion and Turkey Vulture
signed pen and wash drawing 15 x 28 cm £200 buy now
Buzzards in the mountains
unsigned pen and wash drawing 15 x 19 cm in mount 25x30 cm £130 buy now
Condor
signed drawing with watercolour 32 x23 (in mount 44 x 35) £500 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.135
Eleonora's Falcons above village, Crete
unsigned watercolour 23 x 23 cm (in mount 40 x 40cm) £450 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.124
Eleonora's Falcons on the wing
unsigned drawing with colour 15 x 18 cm £150 buy now crease in paper top left original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 125
Fulmar chasing a Peregrine
unsigned watercolour 11 x 20 cm in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Gannets fighting
signed pencil drawing with colour wash 10 x 21 cm £150 buy now original illustration from Looking at Birds p.46
Golden Eagle
unsigned drawing 16 x 16 cm £150 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.109
Golden Eagle and highland landscape
watercolour 18 x 14 cm unsigned in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Golden Eagle mobbed by buzzards
unsigned watercolour 15 x 17 cm £130 buy now
Golden Eagle studies
signed watercolour 2003 20 x 23 cm (in mount 35x35cm) £400
Golden Eagles and Cumulus Cloud
signed watercolour and pastel 2007 39 x 29 cm Framed £550
Griffin and Black Vultures 1998
signed drawing with pastel 28 x 48 cm £500 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.129
Hen Harrier harried, Orkney 2012
unsigned watercolour 19 x 23 cm £250 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.115
Hen Harrier loop the loop
unsigned pen and wash drawing 13 x 16 cm £100 buy now original illustration from Looking at Birds p.53
Honey Buzzard
13 x 11 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm £100 buy now
Immature Red-footed Falcon study 2008
unsigned watercolour sketches23 x 30 cm£400 buy now
Imperial Eagle, Bulgaria
unsigned watercolour 13 x 11 cm £100 buy now
Inky Vultures
unsigned ink drawing 14 x 22 cm in mount 25x30cm £150 buy now
Juvenile Golden Eagle on nest
unsigned watercolour18 x 15 cm £145 buy now from SOC online shop
Little owl sketch 1
unsigned drawing 10 x 7 cm £75 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.192
Marsh Harrier and Moorhen
unsigned watercolour 13 x 11 cm £100 buy now original illustration from Looking at Birds p.64
Merlins hunting
unsigned watercolour 14 x 12.5 cm £100 buy now original illustration from Looking at Birds p.59
Northern Harrier sketches, USA
annotated watercolour sketches 17 x 27 cm £350 buy now
Osprey Fishing 1989
signed watercolour 27 x 30 cm £600 Framed available from Birdscapes Gallery
Osprey pair, Speyside
signed watercolour 29 x 29 cm £500 buy now
Osprey rising
unsigned drawing in brown ink 11 x 18 cm £130 buy now
Osprey with two young
signed drawing 19 x 24 cm £200 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.114 There is also a larger similar drawing of Osprey family in Birds of Prey gallery
Penelope Barn Owl study
unsigned watercolour sketch 11 x 8 cm in mount 20x20cm £100 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.144
Peregrine and Red Grouse
unsigned pen and wash drawing 24 x 17 cm in mount 40x30cm £250 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.111
Peregrine and red grouse
signed watercolour 1989 19 x 22cm £450
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
Dispute between Pied Crows and Kite (watercolour)
watercolour 13 x 25cm illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.189 £130
Red Kite
20 x 16cm initialled pen and wash drawing £130 buy now
Red Kite chick
unsigned drawing 11 x 17 cm £165 buy from SOC online art shop original illustration from Lines from Nature p.117
Red Kite studies
signed watercolour 2005 27 x 28 cm in mount 40cm sq. £450 available from Birdscapes Gallery
sketches of Red-backed hawk, Peregrine and Crested Caracara
unsigned pen and wash drawing with notes by the artist 25 x 23 cm £350 buy now original from Land Marks and Sea Wings p.128
Red-footed Falcon 2008
signed watercolour 22 x 30 cm £450 Framed original illustration from Lines from Nature p.121
Red-footed Falcon mobbed by Jackdaws 2008
unsigned watercolour 23 x 30 cm £350 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.121
Sea eagle attack dive
unsigned drawing 8 x 21 cm £75 buy now original illustration from Looking at Birds p.64
Short-eared Owl hunting
signed drawing 2007 29 x 29cm (in mount 40x40cm) £400 at The Donald Watson Gallery, Scottish Ornithologists' Club, Aberlady contact original illustration from Lines from Nature p.140
short-eared owl study 2
unsigned drawing 10 x 9 cm £75 buy now
Sparrowhawk chased by House Martins
unsigned pen and wash drawing 8 x 11 cm £75 buy now original illustration from Looking at Birds p.44
Striated Caracara, Sealion island, Falklands
signed watercolour 1992 20 x 31 cm £400 buy noworiginal illustration from Land Marks and Sea Wings p.123
White-bellied Sea Eagles, Australia
signed (on back) watercolour 22 x 21 £150 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.96

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