Artist’s cards are now available to buy individually, or to make up your own set of six. They feature a range of John’s work from his seabirds to mammals, owls and eagles, as well as field and garden birds. Many are also illustrations from his books, Lines from Nature and Land Marks and Sea Wings. […]
Publications
Surprising sights and the role of the imagination
Looking at Birds is aptly subtitled ‘an antidote to Field Guides‘. John is making the point that identifying birds is only the beginning, and that to be open to other ways of watching birds will greatly enhance our time spent doing it. He suggests that we should enjoy the “many times when, because of light […]
An animated Flipbook for you!
The first of three flip books showing the Alphabet pictures. Click on links on back pages to see all three booklets [alternatively go direct to the Alphabet blog here]
Birds in your Garden
As we come up to the RSPB’s Big Garden Bird Watch can I recommend again this delightful book published 1989 and currently available very cheaply on the secondhand book market? It is full of wonderful illustrations by John, many in full colour and takes you through a whole year in your garden with ideas for […]
Book illustrations
John illustrated over a hundred books in full or in part. A fairly comprehensive bibliography was published in his book Land Marks and Sea Wings in 2005. Not usually signed, the artworks would be sent back once the publisher had finished with them. Sometimes these originals would be part of an exhibition accompanying the book, […]
‘The Herald’ series
UPDATE: Since we have over a hundred press cuttings from the Birdwatch series I am always keeping an eye out for likely pictures that might be part of that series. Recently I have found three ‘new’ ones to bring the total of known originals to 45. Mind you, of these 31 have already sold, so […]
Looking at Birds – an antidote to field guides
published by Langford Press 2013 This book is a little gem which will bring joy and amusement to the reader. – Tim Wootton in Birdwatch Magazine Thought-provoking? I think so. Busby says: ‘identifying a bird is only the beginning’. – Dan Powell in British Birds Looking at Birds is an outstanding guide to observing the […]
Land Marks and Sea Wings
Published by The Wildlife Art Gallery, Lavenham 2005 The present volume demonstrates that Busby is both an inspirational teacher and a major artist in his own right – Mark Cocker in the Times Literary Supplement John’s paintings and drawings spanning more than half a century are accompanied by his perceptive writings. – Aubrey Art Gallery “This […]
Nature Drawings
Individually numbered and signed limited edition. Full page reproductions of John Busby’s charcoal or pencil drawings with reproductions of his handwritten notes opposite each. Short-eared owls feature, as well as other Busby favourites: grebes, kites, ospreys, kittiwakes and gannets and a sprinkling of penguins and birds from more exotic places. There are foxes and otters […]
Lines from Nature
Busby’s curiosity about and delight in the natural world jump from every page of this book by Mark Boyd in the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club Journal Arguably among the most influential British wildlife artists of the post-war period Drawn to Nature feature in the BBC Wildlife magazine Aug 2016 I don’t see how anyone could be […]