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John Busby, Artist

Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Reptiles etc.

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Cloud, Dace and dragonflies
signed drawing with colour 29 x 40 cm £400 reserved original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 10
Falls of Feuch, Aberdeenshire 2007
signed watercolour 39 x 29 cm (in mount 50 x 40 cm) £500
Lithograph, Fish, by John Busby
Lithograph, Fish
limited edition signed lithograph hand coloured by the artist 22 x 31 cm
Flat-backed turtle hatchlings, Australia
signed drawing with watercolour 29 x 20 cm £300 buy now illustration (part) from Lines for Nature p.93
Flounder
pen and wash drawing 11 x 16 cm £50 buy now Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p170
Lithograph, Giant Tortoise by John Busby
Lithograph, Giant Tortoise
limited edition signed lithograph 18 x 24.5 cm
Lithoprint, Hermit crabs by John Busby
Lithoprint, Hermit crabs
two-colour limited edition signed lithograph 15 x 25 cm
Magnificent Frigate Birds, Giant Tortoise and moorhens I 1999
signed watercolour 30 x 40 cm £500 buy now 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 on green algae 1999
signed pastel drawing 28 x 32 £450 buy now
Marine Iguanas sunbathing 1999
signed watercolour 25 x 40 cm £500 buy now
Lithograph, Newly hatched turtles by John Busby
Lithograph, Newly hatched turtles
limited edition signed lithograph, signed 22 x 30 cm
Lithograph, Robber Crab by John Busby
Lithograph, Robber Crab
limited edition signed lithograph hand coloured by the artist 21 x 32 cm
Lithograph, Shells by John Busby
Lithograph, Shells
limited edition signed lithograph hand coloured by the artist 22 x 30cm
Lithograph, Shore Crab by John Busby
Lithograph, Shore Crab
limited edition signed lithograph hand coloured by the artist 24 x 34 cm
Studies of Land Iguanas
unsigned drawing 25 x 35 cm £450 buy now original illustration from Land Marks and Sea Wings p156
Young 'Saltie'
watercolour, initialled on back 9 x 17 £90 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.93

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