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John Busby, Artist

Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Birds in General

Pictures with a <buy now> link are available for immediate dispatch via our online shop. The others are also for sale but may take longer to send to you. Please contact us about them.

Blackcap Studies 1993
Blackcap Studies 1993
signed watercolour 36 x 29 cm £500
Bolinas Creek, California
Bolinas Creek, California
signed watercolour 26 x 36 cm £600 Framed
Capercaillie by John Busby
Capercaillie
15 x 16 cm Pen and wash in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now
Corn Bunting by John Busby
Corn Bunting
19 x 15 cm Pen and wash in mount25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Corn Buntings, three by John Busby
Corn Buntings, three
16 x 12 cm Pen and wash in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
Dartford Warbler below Les Beaux, Provence
initialled watercolour 26 x 19 cm £350
Dotterel by John Busby
Dotterel
14 x 18 cm signed Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD Illustration from ' Scotland's Nature in Trust' p143
Fan-tailed Ravens above Petra
signed watercolour 24 x 32 cm £500
Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs 1984
Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs 1984
signed watercolour 27 x 37 cm £650 Framed
Grey Wagtails, Bolton Abbey
Grey Wagtails, Bolton Abbey
signed watercolour 1981 32 x 30 cm £500
Harlequin Ducks by John Busby
Harlequin Ducks
14 x 20 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Heron and Gulls, Baron's Haugh 1990
Heron and Gulls, Baron's Haugh Reserve
signed watercolour 1990 28 x 23 cm SOLD
Heron and Lapwing 2010
Heron and Lapwing 2010
signed watercolour 25 x 32 cm £500
Heron, Oystercatcher and Crows 1990
Heron, Oystercatcher and Crows 1990
signed watercolour 30 x 22 cm Framed £450
Hoopoe and Azure-winged Magpie 1994
Hoopoe and Azure-winged Magpie 1994
signed watercolour 28 x 35 cm £500
Hoopoe and goat by John Busby
Hoopoe and goat
11 x 13 cm Watercolour in mount 20 x 25cm £100 buy now
Jackass Penguins 1995
Jackass Penguins 1995
signed pencil drawing 15 x 20 cm £150 buy now
Jay in tree by John Busby
Jay in tree
12 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 30cm £130 buy now Illustration from 'Birds in your Garden' p28
Jay studies by John Busby
Jay studies
14 x 20 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Lake Davis, Oregon 1994
Lake Davis, Oregon 1994
signed watercolour 29 x 37 cm £850 Framed
Lapwing Feeding, and Swallow 2014
Lapwing Feeding, and Swallow 2014 NOT FOUND
signed watercolour 20 x 30 cm £500
Little Grebe Reflection I 1987
Little Grebe Reflection I 1987 NOT FOUND
signed watercolour 25 x 30 cm £500
Little Grebe Reflections 2 1988
Little Grebe Reflections 2 1988
signed watercolour 25 x 30 cm £600
Night Heron and Black-legged Stilts
Night Heron and Black-legged Stilts
unsigned watercolour 23 x 33 cm £600
Pochard diving underwater by John Busby
Pochard
13 x 11cm Drawing in mount 25 x 20cm £100 buy now
Raven by John Busby
Raven
13 x 11 cm Drawing in mount 25 x 20cm SOLD
Ravens standing over dead mouse by John Busby
Ravens and dead mouse
unsigned pen and wash drawing 13x19cm in mount 30 x 25cm £130 buy now Brown-necked Ravens, illustration from "The birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" p150
Red-necked Phalarope, female swimming in still water by John Busby
Red-necked Phalarope, female
11 x 13 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25cm £100 buy now illustration from "Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" p 90
Rook sitting on branch above country lane  by John Busby
Rook
13 x 11 cm Pen and wash, in mount 25 x 20cm £100 buy now
group of sanderlings running up foreshore ahead of wave towards sitting Gulls by John Busby
Sanderlings and Gulls, Winslow Bay
signed watercolour 14 x 25 cm Framed £450 Similar to illustration from Drawing Birds 1st ed p 114
Schiermonnikoog Study I 1990
Schiermonnikoog Study I 1990
signed watercolour 12 x 36 cm £550
Schiermonnikoog Study II 1992
Schiermonnikoog Study II 1992
signed watercolour 27 x 36 cm £600
two female smew swimming on still water by John Busby
Smew, female
14 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 20cm £130 buy now
watercolour studies of New Zealand birds by John Busby
Some Birds of Kapiti 1991
signed watercolour 25 x 35 cm £500
Spotted Crake by John Busby
Spotted Crake
14 x 15 cm pen and wash in mount 30 cm sq SOLD
Starlings in a wind, Orkney
signed watercolour 20 x 27 cm (in mount 33 x 40 cm) £250 Text under mount reads, "These are the Zetland subspecies - darker and less spotted than on the mainland. Starlings are the commonest land birds on Orkney"
Studies of Azure-winged Magpies 1991
signed watercolour 28 x 22 cm £500
seven views of smew swimming on watery backgrounds by John Busby
Studies of Smew 1992
signed watercolour 25 x 35 cm £400
one twite sitting on barbed wire and three flying in background by John Busby
Twite
13 x 11 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm £100 buy now
Waxwings
unsigned watercolour 22 x 15 cm (in mount 25 x 30 cm) £130 buy now
a whimbrel standing on a rock with impression of fields behind by John Busby
Whimbrel
11 x 13 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25cm £100 buy now illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p81

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