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Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Seascapes and Estuaries

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.

Lithograph, Aldabra Shoreline by John Busby
Lithograph, Aldabra Shoreline
limited edition signed lithograph in green ink hand coloured by the artist 27 x 36 cm
Bartolome Island Evening light 1999
Bartolomé Island Evening light 1999
unsigned watercolour 27 x 25 cm £450 original illustration from Land Marks & Sea Wings p136
Bass Rock
unsigned drawing 20 x 14 cm £130 original from Lines from Nature p.53
Drongs, Shetland, by John Busby
Drongs, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 12 x 16 cm £100 Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p35
Estuary Birds 1998
signed watercolour 15 x 33 cm £300
Estuary Scene 2
signed watercolour 23 x 22 cm (in mount 40 x40cm) £350 available from SOC Aberlady original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 63
Falls of Feuch, Aberdeenshire 2007
Falls of Feuch, Aberdeenshire 2007
signed watercolour 39 x 29 cm (in mount 50 x 40 cm) £500
Fidra, July 2000
Fidra, July 2000
unsigned watercolour sketch 40 x 28 cm £400
Fishing boat, Shetland by John Busby
Fishing boat, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 14 x 20 cm £130 Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p159
Gannets at Hermaness, Shetland 1989
signed oil painting 50 x 70 cm £2200 This was painted after a visit to Hermaness, Scotland's most northerly gannet colony, while filming for STV's Portrait of the Wild series.
Houses and boats, Shetland by John Busby
Houses and boats, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 14 x 23 cm £130 Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p1
Indian Ocean, Aldabra by John Busby
Indian Ocean, Aldabra
96 x 102 cm signed 1974 Oil on canvas, £ please enquire "I carry in my mind’s eye the colours of the Indian Ocean, the towering cumulous skies, the drama of storms enacted between stage curtains of rain."
Kimberley Coast, Australia
watercolour unsigned 16 x 22 cm £250 illustration from Lines from Nature p.90
Kittiwake Cliff, St Abbs
oil on canvas 45 x 40 cm in frame £ please enquire
Kittiwakes and rocky bay, St Abbs
signed watercolour 2010 27 x 39 cm £650 framed origina from Land Marks and Sea Wings p 65
Kittiwakes off St Abbs Head 1986
signed oil on canvas 46 x 40 cm please enquire
Landscape Remembered, Rackwick Bay Orkney 2007
Landscape Remembered, Rackwick Bay Orkney 2007
signed oil on canvas 70 x 91 cm £please enquire
Low Tide, Gosford Bay, East Lothian
watercolour sketch 28 x 18 cm £250 illustration from Lines from Nature p.58
Plovers and felled tree branch in an estuary by John Busby
Plovers and drowned tree
watercolour 20 x 30 cm £150
Prince Regent River, Australia
signed* watercolour 22 x 30 cm £300 *signed on back illustration from Lines from Nature p.94
Puffins on Fidra
unsigned drawing dated 2008 20 x 22 cm in mount 40cm sq £350 available from SOC Aberlady small mark in top left corner
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
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
view of Sheep Craig, Fair Isle with no birds, by John Busby
Sheep Craig, Fair Isle
pen and wash drawing 14 x 20 cm £130 Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p243
Sheep Craig, Fair Isle, watercolour by John Busby
Sheep Craig, Fair Isle, watercolour
watercolour, signed 2009 27.5 x 37.5 cm £500
St Abb's Head and boats
signed watercolour 2008 29 x 29 cm £650 framed
St Abb's Head with Kittiwakes
signed watercolour 2008 36 x 23 cm £650 framed
Sullom Voe, Shetland
unsigned pen and wash drawing 12 x 21 cm £130 illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p.273
The Cleaver St Abbs, Line of Gannets 1
signed watercolour 2007 36 x 47 cm £650 framed
view of pinnacle of rock with breaking waves on either side
The Cleaver, St Abbs 2008
signed watercolour 30 x 30 cm £400
view of coast from hill on Unst, Shetland by John Busby
Unst, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 24 x 20 cm £130 illustration from Scotland's Nature in Trust p240
view through interesting tree branches of loch, boat and far side of glen by John Busby
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
distant view of island of Foula in Sheltand across rocky bay by John Busby
View of Foula, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 13 x 20 cm £130 Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p19

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