While John was best known for his wildlife pictures, he was drawn to patterns in landscape at all levels, from the rock pools on the seashore to lichens on moorland rocks, to gnarly trees in ancient forests. Many of the tree pictures here were created during and after two trips with the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) to the New Forest in Hampshire UK and to the less well known ancient oaklands of the Sunart peninsular on the west coast of Scotland.
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Alpine Gentian, Ben Lawers
signed watercolour
13 x 13 cm (in mount 25x30cm)
£130 buy now
Cloud, Dace and dragonflies
signed drawing with colour
29 x 40 cm
£400 reserved
original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 10
Dragonfly
unsigned pen and wash drawing
13 x 11 cm
£100 buy now
original illustration from Beinn Eighe p.104
Lithograph, Flower of Sonneratia alba
limited edition signed lithograph hand coloured by the artist
20 x 20cm
Fungi in Old Tree 2000
signed pencil drawing
32 x 25 cm
£350
Fungi on Birch Logs 2000
signed watercolour
24 x 32 cm
£350
Gnarled Tree Trunks 2004
signed pencil drawing
32 x 24cm
£300
Guardian of Bolderwood, 2000
signed pencil drawing
32 x 24 cm
Illustration from Drawn to the Forest
£350
Heather on Ben Lomond
14.5 x 15 cm
Pen and wash in mount 30cm sq
£150 buy now
Lichen, rushes and lilies
pen and wash drawing
13 x 21.5 cm
£130 buy now
very similar to drawing in A Naturalist's Shetland
Mar Lodge, pine wood regeneration
pen and washdrawing
14 x 19 cm
£130 buy now
illustration from Scotland's Nature in Trust p32
Oak Woods by Loch Lomond
unsigned drawing
29 x 27 cm
£400 buy now
original illustration from Scotland's Nature in Trust p. 178
Oakwoods, Loch Sunart 2004
signed pencil drawing
30 x 30 cm
£250
illustration from Aig an Oir, At the Edge: SWLA Artists in Scotland's Atlantic Oakwoods, Robert Burton, publ Langford Press 2005 p.150
Quarf meadows, Shetland
pen and wash drawing
18 x 25 cm
£200 buy now
Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p67
Rowan
unsigned pen and wash drawing by John Busby
11 x 14 cm
£100 buy now
original illustration from Beinn Eighe p.101
Lithograph, Study of Mangrove Flower
limited edition signed lithograph hand coloured by the artist
20 x 30 cm
Venerable oak and young birch, 2004
signed charcoal drawing
32 x 24 cm
£300
illustration from Aig an Oir, At the Edge: SWLA Artists in Scotland's Atlantic Oakwoods, Robert Burton, publ Langford Press 2005 p.94
View Across the Water 2004
signed watercolour
37 x 28 cm
£500
Salen Woods, Sunart, Scotland's West Coast
illustration from Aig an Oir, At the Edge: SWLA Artists in Scotland's Atlantic Oakwoods, Robert Burton, publ Langford Press 2005 p.32
Winter Trees, Bolderwood, 2000
signed watercolour
35 x 25 cm
£450
illustration in Drawn to the Forest p4
Woodland Creature 2000
signed pencil drawing with pastel
32 x 25cm
Illustration from Drawn to the Forest p51
£350