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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
Avocets in flight 1999
signed watercolour 29 x 38 cm £500
Bass Rock Shags, July 2000
Bass Rock Shags, July 2000
signed watercolour sketch 40 x 25 cm £400
Cormorants, Craigleith 1989
Cormorants, Craigleith 1989
signed watercolour 27 x 31 cm £550 Framed
Crab plovers by John Busby
Crab plovers
14 x 20 cm pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm £130 buy now
Craigleith. Kittiwakes and Bass Rock 1999
signed watercolour sketch 38 x 27cm £300 slight marks on paper
Fidra, July 2000
Fidra, July 2000
unsigned watercolour sketch 40 x 28 cm £400
Gannet Chick 2010
Gannet Chick 2010
unsigned watercolour 25 x 28 cm £450
Gannet Colony
Gannet Colony
signed watercolour 28 x 30 cm £500
Gannets Bowing 2002 by John Busby
Gannets Bowing 2002
signed watercolour 30 x 25cm SOLD
Gulls nesting, Fidra
unsigned watercolour 31 x 22 cm £350
Kittiwake 'Dread'. St Abbs 2009
Kittiwake 'Dread'. St Abbs 2009
signed watercolour 26 x 36 cm £500
Kittiwake cliff
unsigned watercolour 20 x 25cm £300
Kittiwakes and the Bass Rock by John Busby
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
Kittiwake Preening Studies
signed pen and wash drawing 23 x 14 cm SOLD
Kittiwakes St Abbs Head 1, 2003
signed oil on canvas 51 x 61cm £please enquire
Little Awk by John Busby
Little Awk
14 x 20 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Long-tailed Skua by John Busby
Long-tailed Skua
14 x 20 cm signed Pen and wash in mount 24 x 30cm SOLD
Manx Shearwaters & Juvenile Kittiwakes
signed watercolour 1988 20 x 32cm in double mount 40 x 50cm £450 buy now
two purple Sandpipers standing on rock  surrounded by water by John Busby
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 by John Busby
Ringed Plover
11 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
standing Ringed Plover on shoreline with flying swallow by John Busby
Ringed Plover and Swallow
11 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
Ringed Plover showing 'broken wing' display with two chicks in foreground by John Busby
Ringed Plover distraction display
unsigned watercolour 12 x 15 cm in A4 mount £130 buy now illustration from 'Looking at Birds' p44
Ringed Plover nesting pair, one standing to shade the nest  by John Busby
Ringed Plover, shaded sitting
9 x 16 cm watercolour in mount 20 x 25 £100 buy now
Sandwich Terns by John Busby
Sandwich Terns
18 x 14 cm initialled pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
jagged white cliffs and pools of indigo and blue sea visible between, seabirds in distance. by John Busby
Seabird Cliffs 2008
signed drawing with chalk 54 x 64 cm £1750 Framed
Shags and Guillemots nesting on rocky cliff by John Busby
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
Sooty Shearwaters by John Busby
Sooty Shearwaters
14 x 20 signed Drawing in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Swallow-tailed Gulls standing on seashore by John Busby
Swallow-tailed Gulls 1999
signed watercolour 25 x 35 cm £500
drawing of a young shag on rocky cliff edge with other sea birds in background by John Busby
Young Shag, Craigleith 1995
unsigned pencil drawing 25 x 35 cm Framed £300

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