Galapagos - John Busby, Artist

In his book Land Marks and Sea Wings John writes about his trip to the Galapagos. “The wildlife is amazingly unafraid of humans. It is still possible to imagine the feelings of the first explorers at the strangeness of marine iguanas and giant tortoises, and of the plants and animals and even penguins, existing at the edges of these barren, volcanic islands on the equator…

…The insights of zoologists, especially those of my friend Bryan Nelson, have helped me to understand the creatures I draw. Regard for science does not exclude a spiritual dimension – while I was there, words written by St John on another remote island 2000 years ago came strongly to mind: ‘All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men'” (John 1:3,4)

Bartolomé Island Evening light 1999
unsigned watercolour 27 x 25 cm £450 buy now original illustration from Land Marks & Sea Wings p136

Galapagos Penguins and Flightless Cormorant
signed drawing 22 x 19 cm Framed £300

Magnificent Frigate Birds, Giant Tortoise and moorhens I 1999
signed watercolour 30 x 40 cm £500 Galapagos Islands "Here on *El Chato* lake, Magnificent Frigate birds bathe by splash diving. The giant tortoise is swimming, reaching down with its long neck for weeds, and surrounded by a flotilla of attendant moorhens hoping for disturbed food" - Land Marks and Sea Wings p.141

Marine Iguanas sunbathing 1999
signed watercolour 25 x 40 cm £500

Sealions and Mocking Bird 1999
signed watercolour 20 x 36cm £500

Studies of Land Iguanas
unsigned drawing 25 x 35 cm £450 original illustration from Land Marks and Sea Wings p156

Swallow-tailed Gulls 1999
signed watercolour 25 x 35 cm £500

White-tailed Tropicbird
signed pen and wash drawing 22 x 28 cm £250

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