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John Busby, Artist

Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Birds of Prey

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.

Aldabra Kestrels
signed drawing 17 x 12 cm (in A4 mount) £100 buy now
Barn Owl 'Penelope'
unsigned watercolour, sketches and feather 28 x 20 cm £450 available from SOC Aberlady original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 143
Bonelli's Eagle in flight
unsigned drawing 9 x 12cm (in mount 20x20cm) £100 buy now
Bonelli's Eagle sketches 1996
unsigned drawing 24 x 22 cm £350 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.127
Bull Sealion and Turkey Vulture
signed pen and wash drawing 15 x 28 cm £200
Buzzards in the mountains
unsigned pen and wash drawing 15 x 19 cm in mount 25x30 cm £130 buy now
Common Buzzards hovering
signed drawing 22 x 16 cm £250 original from Lines from Nature p.113
Condor
signed drawing with watercolour 32 x23 (in mount 44 x 35) £500 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.135
Eleonora's Falcons above village, Crete
unsigned watercolour 23 x 23 cm (in mount 40 x 40cm) £450 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.124
Eleonora's Falcons on the wing
unsigned drawing with colour 15 x 18 cm (in mount 30x30cm) £150 crease in paper top left original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 125
Fulmar chasing a Peregrine, Harris
watercolour 15 x 20 in mount 25 x 30 £130
Golden Eagle
unsigned drawing 16 x 16 cm £150 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.109
Golden Eagle and highland landscape by John Busby
Golden Eagle and highland landscape
watercolour 18 x 14 cm unsigned in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Golden Eagle mobbed by buzzards
unsigned watercolour 15 x 17 cm £130 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.123
Golden Eagle studies
signed watercolour 2003 20 x 23 cm £400
Golden Eagles and Cumulus Cloud 2007
Golden Eagles and Cumulus Cloud
signed watercolour and pastel 2007 39 x 29 cm Framed £500
Griffin and Black Vultures 1998
signed drawing with pastel 28 x 48 cm £500 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.129
Hen Harrier harried, Orkney 2012
unsigned watercolour 19 x 23 cm £250 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.115
Honey Buzzard by John Busby
Honey Buzzard
13 x 11 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm £100 buy now
Immature Red-footed Falcon study 2008
unsigned watercolour sketches 23 x 30 cm £400 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.120
Imperial Eagle, Bulgaria
unsigned watercolour 13 x 11 cm £100 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.122
Inky Vultures
unsigned ink drawing 14 x 22 cm in mount 25x30cm £150 buy now
Juvenile Golden Eagle on nest
unsigned watercolour 18 x 15 cm in mount 25 x 30cm £130 buy now
Northern Harrier sketches, USA
annotated watercolour sketches 17 x 27 cm £350
Osprey family 2004
signed drawing 2004 28 x 28 cm (in mount 42 x43) £500 very similar to illustration in Lines from Nature p 114
Osprey diving just above water with Scottish mountain scene behind. another flying  by John Busby
Osprey Fishing 1989
signed watercolour 27 x 30 cm £600 Framed
Osprey pair, Speyside
signed watercolour 29 x 29 cm £500
Osprey with fish
unsigned pen and wash drawing 16 x 17 cm in mount 30cm sq. £150 buy now
Osprey with two young
signed drawing 19 x 24 cm £200 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.114 There is also a larger similar drawing of Osprey family in Birds of Prey gallery
Peregrine and red grouse
signed watercolour 1989 19 x 22 cm £200 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.110
drawing of dispute between Pied Crows and Kite by John Busby
dispute between Pied Crows and Kite, Aldabra
drawing 11.5 x 25 cm £100 "Two pied crows eventually drove off the black kite: egret spectators drawn to the scene" JB
Pied Crows threatening a Kite on a sandy tropical beach by John Busby
Dispute between Pied Crows and Kite (watercolour)
watercolour 13 x 25cm illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.189 £130
Raptor card set
5 cards £10 buy now
Red Kite flying above fields by John Busby
Red Kite
20 x 16cm initialled pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm £130 buy now
Red Kite chick
unsigned drawing 11 x 17 cm £150 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.117
Red Kite studies
signed watercolour 2005 27 x 28 cm in mount 40cm sq. £450 buy now
Red-backed hawk, Peregrine and Crested Caracara
unsigned pen and wash drawing 25 x 23 cm £350 original from Land Marks and Sea Wings p.128
Immature Red-footed Falcon study
unsigned watercolour sketches 23 x 30 cm £400 Illustration from Lines from Nature p. 120
Red-footed Falcon 2008
signed watercolour 22 x 30 cm £450 Framed original illustration from Lines from Nature p.121
Red-footed Falcon mobbed by Jackdaws 2008
unsigned watercolour 23 x 30 cm £350 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.121
Sparrowhawk chased by House Martins
unsigned pen and wash drawing 9 x 13 cm (in mount 20x25) £100 illustration from Looking at Birds p.44
White-bellied Sea Eagles, Australia
signed (on back) watercolour 22 x 21 £150 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.96
Studies of young Golden Eagle
Charcoal and wash 24 x 24 £400 original illustration from Lines from Nature p.108

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