With restrictions easing I have been lucky enough to get out and about in Perthshire, the Highlands and West Coast of Scotland in the last few weeks. The stunning scenery brings to mind many of John’s pictures and drawings, some of which I have showcased here. The last three pictures were illustrations for the book […]
Landscapes
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. […]
Silk scarves – a new venture
Super soft and printed with some of John’s magnificent abstract oil landscapes we’re really excited about these silk scarves. Just six samples were made and three of them have gone already, so if you are interested don’t leave it too late! See Shop here These scarves are printed on light silk satin and finished with […]
Scottish Wildlife print
£50 each +p&p 37 x 41 cm unmounted. There are quite a few architects’ plan drawers in the studio. Wide and shallow they could hold enormous sheets of paper and are ideal for the sketches and unmounted original watercolours they hold now. Every so often I delve into the drawers and emerge with some […]
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 […]