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John Busby, Artist

Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Seabirds

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.

Avocets in flight 1999
signed watercolour 29 x 38 cm £500
Bass Rock Shags, July 2000
signed watercolour sketch 40 x 25 cm £450
Brent Geese
unsigned drawing 19 x 28 cm £250 original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 33
Cormorants, Craigleith 1989
signed watercolour 27 x 31 cm £550 Framed
Cormorants, Gull and Puffin 2003
signed watercolour 2003 18 x 18 cm (in mount 30cm sq) £200 available from SOC Aberlady
Craigleith. Kittiwakes and Bass Rock 1999
signed watercolour sketch 38 x 27cm £350 slight marks on paper
Dead Puffin
watercolour unsigned 19 x 19cm £150 illustration from Lines from Nature p.29
Estuary Scene 1
watercolour unsigned 17 x 21 cm (in mount 25x30) £130 illustration from Lines from Nature p.32
Fidra, July 2000
unsigned watercolour sketch 40 x 28 cm £400
Gannet Chick 2010
unsigned watercolour 25 x 28 cm £450
Gannet Colony
signed watercolour 28 x 30 cm £500
Gannets at Hermaness, Shetland 1989
signed oil painting 50 x 70 cm £2200 This was painted after a visit to Hermaness, Scotland's most northerly gannet colony, while filming for STV's Portrait of the Wild series.
Gannets on the Bass Rock (with pipe)
signed watercolour 2000 27 x 18cm £400 available from SOC Aberlady illustration from Lines from Nature p.54
Gulls nesting, Fidra
unsigned watercolour 31 x 22 cm £350
Humbolt Penguins
unsigned drawing with coloured wash 14 x 13 cm in mount 30x25cm £130 buy now
Imperial and Rock Shags, Long-tailed Meadowlark, Falklands
signed watercolour 1992 20 x 28 cm £350
Kittiwake 'Dread'. St Abbs 2009
signed watercolour 26 x 36 cm SOLD
Kittiwake cliff
unsigned watercolour 20 x 25cm £300
Kittiwakes and the Bass Rock
18 x 15 cm Pen and wash in mount 30 x 25cm £130 available from SOC Aberlady
Kittiwakes Dunbar 2002
signed watercolour sketch 28 x 20 cm £300
Kittiwakes off St Abbs Head 1986
signed oil on canvas 46 x 40 cm please enquire
Kittiwakes on the Bass Rock 1990
signed drawing 34 x 47 cm £600 framed
Kittiwakes St Abbs Head 1, 2003
signed oil on canvas 51 x 61cm £please enquire
Manx Shearwaters & Juvenile Kittiwakes
signed watercolour 1988 20 x 32cm in double mount 40 x 50cm £450 buy now
Nesting Gannets, Bass Rock
watercolour 27 x 19 cm £350 illustration from Lines from Nature p.57
Purple Sandpiper
14 x 20 cm Pen and wash in mount 24 x 30cm £130 available from SOC Aberlady
Redshank, Herring Gull, Little Tern
unsigned watercolour 27 x 22 cm £350
Resting Waders and Gull 2004
Resting Waders and Gull 2004
signed oil 30 x 40 cm please enquire
Ringed Plover distraction display
unsigned watercolour 12 x 15 cm in A4 mount £130 buy now illustration from 'Looking at Birds' p44
Ringed Plover, shaded sitting
9 x 16 cm watercolour in mount 20 x 25 £100 buy now
Seabird Cliffs 2008
signed drawing with chalk 54 x 64 cm £1750 Framed
Shags and Guillemots Bass Rock 2002
signed watercolour 38cm x 28cm £500
Shags Cragleith 1979
Signed watercolour 35 x 38cm £500 (note fold mark bottom left)
Sketch for 'Kittiwakes returning at St Abb's Head'
signed drawing 24 x 30 cm £300 one of two similar drawings
Smew, males and females
signed watercolour 1991 24 x 33 cm in mount 40 x 50cm £450 buy now
Swallow-tailed Gulls 1999
signed watercolour 25 x 35 cm £500
Waved Albatross displaying
unsigned watercolour 18 x 22cm in mount 40cmsq £400 buy now original illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.50
Waved Albatross, Galapagos
signed watercolour 17 x 15 cm (in mount 30cm sq) £200 buy now
Young Giant Petrels
signed drawing 1992 12 x 23 cm £200
Young Shag, Craigleith 1995
unsigned pencil drawing 25 x 35 cm Framed £300

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