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Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Northern and Western Isles

Orkney and Shetland, Skye and beyond…    click on the pictures for details

Drongs, Shetland, by John Busby
Drongs, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 12 x 16 cm £50 buy now Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p35
Female King Eider and Goldeneye, Kirkwall
signed watercolour 1982 16 x 18 cm (in mount 30 cm sq) £180 buy now date and location under mount
Flounder
pen and wash drawing 11 x 16 cm £50 buy now Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p170
Gannets at Hermaness, Shetland 1989
signed oil painting 50 x 70 cm £2750 This was painted after a visit to Hermaness, Scotland's most northerly gannet colony, while filming for STV's Portrait of the Wild series.
Hen Harrier harried, Orkney 2012
unsigned watercolour 19 x 23 cm £250 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.115
Orkney Vole and Shrew 2007
signed watercolour study 28 x 28 cm £400 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.161
Otter in Shetland
signed drawing 1983 29 x 20 cm £300 original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 149
view of rolling meadow with rocky shoreline beyond, Shetland, by John Busby
Quarf meadows, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 18 x 25 cm £200 buy now
Ravens flying above dramatic cleft in rock with green fields beyond and sea, Quirang, Skye  by John Busby
Raven Rock, Quirang, Skye 2011
signed oil on canvas 50 x 39 cm £please enquire
Sheep Craig, Fair Isle June
signed watercolour, June 2009 27.5 x 37.5 cm £500 buy now
Shetland - alternate title page
initialled original watercolour Alternate title page for "A Naturalist's Shetland" by J Laughton Johnston
Skara Brae, Orkney
watercolour, signed 2007 30 x 30 cm £400 buy now
Skara Brae, Orkney 2 with birds
signed watercolour 15 x 20 cm £150 buy now
Skara Brae, Orkney 1
signed watercolour 2002 15 x 20 cm £150 buy now
Stones of Stenness, Orkney 2007
signed watercolour 30 x 30 cm £400 buy now
Sullom Voe, Shetland
unsigned pen and wash drawing 12 x 21 cm illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p.273
View of Foula, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 13 x 20 cm £100 buy now Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p19

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