The Exhibition is now finished and this iconic picture is now heading for another wall… but if you’re interested in any of the landscapes that were on display, take a look at the Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh‘s web page. They will be happy to help!
Exhibitions
A few of the more recent exhibitions featuring John Busby's work.
Birds in the Gallery…
… must be better than viewing online, right? A selection of the mounted originals are still available to see in the gallery until the new year several of which are not on our website. Do take the opportunity to see them face to face while you can.
Visions of Nature Exhibition
We were delighted to be take part in Gallery Q’s exhibition “Visions of Nature” in their gallery at 160 Nethergate, Dundee. Gallery Q So lovely to see these pictures on the wall rather than on a screen; one can really appreciate the subtleties of colour and line when close to the originals. I do urge […]
New exhibition June and July 2023
It was a lovely exhibition and I do hope you were able to see it. Some of the pictures sold I have put in the Recently Sold gallery, and I hope to start a new gallery of Framed Pictures soon so that you can see the others. —————- We’re just in the last stages of […]
BIRDscapes Exhibition 5-20 March 2022
We are very pleased to say that a considerable number of John’s works will be exhibited at the BIRDscapes Gallery in Holt, Norfolk next month. Over 30 framed and mounted pictures have been sent down south to be part of the ‘Collectors Exhibition’. As well as the opportunity to see John’s pictures in reality and […]
May ’21 Exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
A selection of John’s landscape pictures were shown at the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh in May 2021. The Open Eye Gallery hold a number of John’s paintings and show them online too. See their website here for a selection. We are also able to take enquiries about pictures that have not been exhibited recently. […]
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 […]
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 […]