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John Busby, Artist

Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Who are you looking at?

June 9, 2020

Gulls are known as bold creatures and the bane of many tourist hot-spots. This one is certainly giving us a hard stare, he may be about to fly off, but he’ll be back! Most birds are more wary, peering out from behind rocks, or deep inside vegetation, pictures may not show much of the physical […]

Filed Under: Birds, Blog, Pictures

Fairy Tern

June 1, 2020

A delicate all-white Fairy Tern (Gygis alba) flies in an azure sky, somewhere over the Seychelles or Aldabra atoll. Bright sunlight makes its wings almost transparent. £130, 11 x 20 cm in A4 mount These little birds are relatively common across the tropical oceans of the world despite their daft parenting practices.  The female lays […]

Filed Under: Birds, Blog, Pictures

Chiffchaff, The Proud Songster

May 26, 2020

Chiffchaff, 'proud songster' by John busby

This little illustration was labelled “Proud Songster” and while not specifically mentioned in the poem of the same name by Thomas Hardy, John obviously felt that this Chiffchaff was doing its bit to fill our days with birdsong. Pen and wash drawing 13 x 11cm  For sale as part of the #artistsupportpledge  £100   buy now […]

Filed Under: Birds, Blog, Pictures

See the Wind

May 21, 2020

What a wind today!  Only a few birds spotted while out walking and those keeping close to the ground. It’s not easy to depict the wind on paper but here’s a windy bird picture of Lapwing and Ringed plovers in a strong wind by the Master Wildlife Artist, John Busby. In his book Looking at […]

Filed Under: Birds, Blog, Pictures

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

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

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 […]

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Aldabra – then and now

September 8, 2018

Aldabra lagoon by John Busby

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Aldabra

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