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Seascapes and Estuaries

Pictures with a <buy now> link are available from our online shop. The others are also for sale but may take longer to send to you. Please contact us about them.

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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
Avocets in flight 1999
signed watercolour 29 x 38 cm £500 buy now
Bartolomé Island Evening light 1999
unsigned watercolour 27 x 25 cm £450 buy now original illustration from Land Marks & Sea Wings p136
Bass Rock
unsigned drawing 20 x 14 cm £130 buy now original from Lines from Nature p.53
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
Estuary Birds 1998
signed watercolour 15 x 33 cm £300 buy now
Estuary Scene 1
watercolour unsigned 17 x 21 cm £130 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.32
Falls of Feuch, Aberdeenshire 2007
signed watercolour 39 x 29 cm (in mount 50 x 40 cm) £500
Fidra, July 2000
unsigned watercolour sketch 40 x 28 cm £400 buy now
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.
Herring Gulls and Rockdoves hanging in the wind, Etretat
unsigned sketches with watercolour and artist's notes 23 x 22 cm in mount 40x40cm £450 buy now original illustration in Lines from Nature p.47
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 16 x 22 cm £250 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.90
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
signed oil on canvas 1986 46 x 40 cm framed £please enquire
Knot, hiding 'en masse'
unsigned drawing 10 x 11.5 cm £75 buy now original illustration from Looking at Birds p.36
Low Tide, Gosford Bay, East Lothian
unsigned watercolour sketch 28 x 18 cm £250 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.58
Plovers and drowned tree
unsigned watercolour 20 x 30 cm £250 buy now
Prince Regent River, Australia
signed* watercolour 22 x 30 cm £300 buy now *signed on back illustration from Lines from Nature p.94
Puffins on Fidra
unsigned drawing dated 2008 20 x 22 cm £300 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
Rockcliffe Pool
signed watercolour 29 x 26 cm £450 buy now
Seabird Cliffs 2008
signed drawing with chalk 54 x 64 cm £1450 Framed
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
St Abb's Head and boats
signed watercolour 2008 29 x 29 cm £650 framed
St Abbs Head with Kittiwakes
signed watercolour 2008 36 x 23 cm £500 framed
Sullom Voe, Shetland
unsigned pen and wash drawing 12 x 21 cm illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p.273
Young Stonechat on a Cornish Beach
watercolour, framed 37 x 54 cm £790 available from Birdscapes Gallery original illustration from Land Marks & Sea Wings p9 'A wonderful memory for me of a summer holiday. We had a little inflatable boat (a promotion from the Fina petrol company) just like the one lower centre, and I suspect that is my mother and little sister nearby. Of course a similar picture nowadays would have everyone in wetsuits. We were hardier then!' John's daughter
Sunset estuary with heron
unsigned watercolour 16 x 22 E130 buy now original illustration from Looking at Birds p.79
The Cleaver St Abbs, Line of Gannets 1
signed watercolour 2007 36 x 47 cm £650 framed
The Cleaver, St Abbs 2008
signed watercolour 30 x 30 cm £400
View Across the Water 2004
signed watercolour 37 x 28 cm £500 buy now 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
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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