An antidote to Field Guides published by Langford Press 2013 “The aim of the book is to encourage people to see more when they watch birds: to discover new things in the bird’s life and exchange the images we pick up from books, for those we discover for ourselves.” “…The trouble is that an […]
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Land Marks and Sea Wings
Published by The Wildlife Art Gallery, Lavenham 2005 from the Foreword “This book brings together drawing and paintings made over several decades. They celebrate places that have been long-standing sources of inspiration, as well as those of rare excitement, far away. Each picture takes shape in its own time, but once made, it lives on in […]
Nature Drawings
From the introduction …At art college, I learned the value of objective study – it was hard at first to rein-in the freedom to invent. But one learns too that it is not enough to be just an objective eye – a visual accuracy machine. One has to see behind the surface of things, to […]
Lines from Nature
Published by Langford Press 2016 from the Introduction “…In my earlier books Nature Drawings (Arlequin), Birds in Mallorca (Helm), and Land Marks & Sea Wings (The Wildlife Art Gallery, Lavenham), the focus was on the landscapes and fauna of special places. Here I have collected some of the moments that gave me great enjoyment to draw and […]
Living Birds of Eric Ennion
Published by Victor Gollancz 1982 Edited by John Busby, with an introduction and commentary. From the introduction. “Eric Ennion was a unique but not widely known genius of British wildlife painting. A Cambridgeshire doctor with a passion for nature, he gave up medicine to pioneer Field Study Centres and to write, to broadcast and above […]
Drawing Birds: an RSPB Guide 1st ed.
First edition published 1986 “John Busby looks at birds with the eye of a birdwatcher and artist, and explains his techniques with the ease and enthusiasm of the expert teacher. The book is divided into six sections. The introductory chapter describes some of the ways artists have looked at birds in the past and […]
Drawing Birds: an RSPB Guide 2nd ed.
Second edition including the work of more artists and with a foreword by Bill Oddie published 2004 “This is a fully revised and updated new version of a popular RSPB handbook to the art and joy of drawing birds. John Busby beautifully conveys his own remarkable ability to capture the grace and notion of living […]
Birds of Mallorca
A guide for the birder or naturalist embarking on a holiday in Mallorca with illustrations of the island by the author. It examines all parts of Mallorca with regional accounts from the Salinas de Levant’s saltpans in the south, to the northern Sierras and the coast and back lanes of Cala D’Or. Pat Bishop, with […]