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Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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Shorelarks
initialled watercolour 10 x 16 cm SOLD Published in The Herald see Herald series
Lark Sparrow
9 x 13 cm signed Watercolour in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Merlin
unsigned pen and watercolour sketch 10 x 13cm SOLD
Long-tailed Field Mouse
unsigned drawing 7 x 19 cm SOLD original illustration in Lines from Nature p. 160
Golden eagles and cumulus cloud
unsigned watercolour 20 x 15 cm SOLD original illustration from Looking at Birds p.4
Estuary Scene 2
signed watercolour 23 x 22 cm SOLD
Chiffchaff, 'Proud Songster'
initialled pen and wash drawing 13 x 11 cm SOLD
Barn Owl 'Penelope'
unsigned watercolour, sketches and feather 28 x 20 cm SOLD
Sheltering Sanderlings 1
unsigned pen drawing with colour 7 x 15 cm SOLD original illustration from Looking at Birds p.57
Purple Sandpiper
14 x 20 cm Pen and wash in mount 24 x 30cm SOLD original illlustration from The Herald 1990's
Sunlit Swallow
unsigned watercolour 14x10cm SOLD
Gannets fishing 1995
signed drawing with wash 15 x 20 cm in mount 30 x 40cm SOLD original for The Herald newspaper 1995 creased down centre
Blue Tit and Hydrangea
unsigned watercolour 30 x 23 cm SOLD
Coots
unsigned pen and wash drawing 9 x 15 cm (in mount 20 x 25cm) SOLD
initialled pen and wash drawing 14 x 20cm SOLD at The Donald Watson Gallery, Scottish Ornithologists' Club, Aberlady original illustration from The Herald in mid 1990's
Territorial Coots
unsigned pen and wash drawing 12 x 20 cm SOLD at The Donald Watson Gallery, Scottish Ornithologists' Club, Aberlady
Crested Tit
15 x 18 cm Pen and wash drawing SOLD at The Donald Watson Gallery, Scottish Ornithologists' Club, Aberlady
Trust a poet to turn up now!
unsigned watercolour 13 x 15 cm SOLD original illustration from Looking at Birds p.91
Dipper
unsigned drawing with some colour 14 x 14 cm SOLD
Little Owl study
unsigned drawing 7 x 8 cm in mount 20x20cm SOLD
Crane Greeting
unsigned drawing 12 x 17 cm in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Reed Warbler and Bearded Reedling, Poland
signed watercolour 1991 22 x 22 cm SOLD original illustration in Lines from Nature p.39
Yellow-browed Warbler
16 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 30cm sq SOLD
Tiger drinking
unsigned drawing with colour wash 10 x 20 cm (in A4 mount) SOLD
Sita, Bandhavgarh
unsigned drawing 19 x 20 cm SOLD original from Lines from Nature p.78
Chaffinch pair 1988
Signed watercolour 11 x 22 cm SOLD illustration from "Birds in your Garden" p34
Lapwing Feeding, and Swallow 2014
signed watercolour 20 x 30 cm SOLD
Redwing
unsigned pen and wash drawing SOLD
Cranes Through the Trees 1998
signed watercolour 18 x 20 cm SOLD
Jackdaws in a Stiff Wind 2000
signed watercolour 25 x 43 cm SOLD
Caspian Plover and Lapwing, Aberlady
signed watercolour 1988 9.5 x 17 cm (in mount 25x30cm) SOLD illustration from Lines from Nature p.35
House Martin nest
12 x 16 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Great Grey Shrike
16 x 12 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 30 x 25cm SOLD
Aldabra lagoon
watercolour 22 x 32cm unsigned in mount SOLD
Black Guillemots - 'Tysties'
signed watercolour 15 x 20 cm SOLD
Landscape 67, 1967
Landscape 67, 1967
signed oil on canvas 86 x 105 cm SOLD
Leaping Salmon
unsigned pen and wash drawing (blue ink) 10 x 10 cm SOLD
Studies of young Golden Eagle
Charcoal and wash 24 x 24 SOLD original illustration from Lines from Nature p.108
Houses and boats, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 14 x 23 cm SOLD Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p1
Collared Dove studies
unsigned pen and wash drawings 17 x 17 cm in mount 30cm sq SOLD
Tawny Owl 2002
signed drawing with pastel 19 x 18 cm (in mount 30cm sq) SOLD original illustration from Lines from Nature p.136
Common Buzzards hovering
signed drawing 22 x 16 cm SOLD original from Lines from Nature p.113
House Martins collecting mud
unsigned pen and wash drawing 14 x 20 cm SOLD
Cormorants, Gull and Puffin 2003
signed watercolour 2003 18 x 18 cm (in mount 30cm sq) SOLD
Long-tailled Tits on the Feeder
watercolour unsigned 17 x 22 cm (in mount 25x30 cm) SOLD illustration from Lines from Nature p.13
Kittiwake cliff
unsigned watercolour 20 x 25cm SOLD
Magpie
12 x 14 cm initalled Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Two Bluetits
unsigned pen and colour drawing 6 x 16 cm in an A4 mount SOLD
Osprey with fish
unsigned pen and wash drawing 16 x 17 cm in mount 30cm sq. SOLD
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Buzzard Sky
signed oil 152 x 61 cm SOLD
Juvenile Golden Eagle head
unsigned watercolour 11 x 15 cm in mount 20 x 25cm SOLD
Pilot Whales and Shearwaters
pen and wash drawing 14 x 20 cm SOLD Illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p183
Curlew and Redshank, Aberlady
signed drawing 24 x 25 cm in mount 40x40cm SOLD
Sparrowhawk and prey
unsigned drawing 13 x 17 cm in mount 25x30cm SOLD
Shags Cragleith 1979
Signed watercolour 35 x 38cm SOLD (note fold mark bottom left)
Grey Heron flying
pen and wash, initialled 18 x 21 cm SOLD
Barn Owl Study 2
unsigned drawing with some colour 10 x 16cm SOLD original from Lines from Nature p.145
baby green turtle swimming
unsigned drawing 10 x 14 cm (in mount 20 x 25cm) SOLD
Kittiwake 'Dread'. St Abbs 2009
signed watercolour 26 x 36 cm SOLD
Corncrake
9 x 13 cm initialled watercolour in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Fan-tailed Warbler
12 x 10 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
Jay display
15 x 18 cm signed Watercolour in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD Illustration from 'Birds in your Garden' p74
Osprey
16 x 12cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Barn Owl in flight 1
watercolour, unsigned 8 x 16 in mount 20 x 25 SOLD
Barn Owl in flight 2
watercolour unsigned 11 x 16 cm in mount 20 x 25cm SOLD
Ringed Plover
11 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Rooks over fields
12 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Spotted Flycatcher
13 x 11 cm initialled Drawing in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
Desert Horned Lark
signed watercolour 12 x 17cm (in A4 mount) SOLD original illustration from On the Rocks p.159
Starlings in a wind, Orkney
signed watercolour 20 x 27 cm (in mount 33 x 40 cm) SOLD Text under mount reads, "These are the Zetland subspecies - darker and less spotted than on the mainland. Starlings are the commonest land birds on Orkney"
Gannet greeting display
watercolour 12 x 17 cm unsigned, in mount A4 size SOLD
Corn Bunting singing
unsigned watercolour 9 x 7 cm in mount 20cm sq SOLD original illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.171
Fan-tailed Warbler
unsigned watercolour 10 x 11 cm SOLD
Arctic Terns
15 x 20 cm initialled watercolour in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Great-crested Grebe
signed watercolour 11 x 17 cm in A4 mount SOLD original illustration from Looking at Birds p.29
Blue tits threatening behaviour
signed watercolour 1996 10 x 16cm (in mount 25 x 30) SOLD
Merlin, found in Orkney 1978
signed watercolour 1978 27 x 33 cm SOLD some spotting on the paper illustration from Lines from Nature p.30
Slender-billed Gull
unsigned watercolour 13 x 13 cm SOLD illustration from Lines from Nature p.43
Red Kite flying
unsigned watercolour with some spotting on paper 9 x 9 cm SOLD original illustration from Lines from Nature p.116
Sleeping Pine Marten
signed watercolour 2004 16 x 16 cm SOLD original illustration from Lines from Nature p.157
Little Terns on the shore
watercolour, initialled 14 x 28 cm SOLD
Snow buntings
watercolour 10 x 21 cm (in A4 mount) SOLD original illustration from Land Marks & Sea Wings p71
Nightingale
12 x 11 cm watercolour in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
Ringed Plover and Swallow
11 x 16 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
Swan and Pochard and Swallow
signed watercolour 12 x 18 cm SOLD
Golden Oriole
watercolour 13 x 11 cm signed, in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Gannets on the Bass 1987
signed watercolour 28 x 35 cm SOLD A slightly smaller watercolour version of the iconic oil painting of the same name
Widgeon Amongst the Rocks 2006
signed watercolour 18 x 18 cm SOLD
Sandwich Terns and Black-headed Gull 2007
signed watercolour 25 x 34 cm SOLD
Gannets Bowing 2002
signed watercolour 30 x 25cm SOLD
Red-footed Boobies roosting
watercolour, unsigned 23 x 14 cm in A4 mount SOLD
Alpine Accentor
14 x 15 cm signed Watercolour in 30cm sq mount SOLD
Blue tit on the feeder
13 x 9 cm Watercolour in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
Heron and Gulls, Baron's Haugh Reserve
signed watercolour 1990 28 x 23 cm SOLD
Blue-footed Boobies diving for fish 1 1999
signed watercolour 39 x 30 cm SOLD Published in Land Marks & Sea Wings p 139
Quiet Estuary, 1991
signed watercolour 12 x 15 cm SOLD
Red-footed Booby and Chick
unsigned watercolour 11 x 20 cm SOLD
Tawny Owl
watercolour, unsigned 9 x 11 cm in mount 20 x 25cm SOLD
Pygmy Owl, Bern Tierpark
Watercolour, signed, 1992 11 x 10 cm in mount 20 x 25cm SOLD
Long-eared Owl, watercolour
watercolour unsigned 16 x 16 cm SOLD
Blue tits threat display
watercolour 13 x 15 cm unsigned in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Corn Buntings, three
16 x 12 cm Pen and wash in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
Lapwing
18 x 18 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 30cm sq SOLD
drawing of a flightless rail chick by John Busby
Flightless Rail chick
unsigned drawing 11 x 11cm illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson, p88 SOLD
Inner Hebrides in Summer. Canna, with Rùm in background
unsigned drawing 23 x 23 cm SOLD illustration from 'Scotland's Nature in Trust' p53
Cranes
18.5 x 12 cm Pen and wash in mount 30 x 25 cm SOLD
Dotterel
14 x 18 cm signed Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD Illustration from ' Scotland's Nature in Trust' p143
Long-tailed Skua
14 x 20 cm signed Pen and wash in mount 24 x 30cm SOLD
Sooty Shearwaters
14 x 20 signed Drawing in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Stork on the nest
13 x 11 cm drawing in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
drawing of Giant Tortoises sheltering from the sun, Aldabra by John Busby
Giant Tortoises sheltering from the sun, Aldabra
unsigned drawing 11.5 x 22 cm illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.187 SOLD
Tropic bird & Seychelles Fody
two drawings in brown ink unsigned 11x8 and 8x11 cm in A4 mount SOLD
Barn Owls, young in the nest
16 x 16 cm Drawing in mount 30cm sq SOLD
Pintails
12 x 19cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 30 x 25cm SOLD
Raven
13 x 11 cm Drawing in mount 25 x 20cm SOLD
Smew reflections
15 x 12.5 cm initialled Drawing in mount 25 x 20cm SOLD
Bog cotton and Divers
14 x 20 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25cm SOLD
Dunlins
12 x 19 cm Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Hoot (or Little) Owl, USA
drawing, signed 1997 19 x 14 cm SOLD
Blackbird and Berries 1988
signed drawing 12 x 16 cm SOLD
Twite
13 x 11 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm £100 buy now
Red-footed Booby on the nest, Aldabra
signed drawing 16 x 16cm pen and wash in mount 30cm sq SOLD
Highland Cattle, Canna by John Busby
Highland Cattle, Canna
Drawing 8 x 20 cm SOLD illustration from Scotland's Nature in Trust p60
Gannet and chick 1993
signed drawing 18 x 25 cm SOLD
Inky Crane (Black Stork) 1994
signed ink drawing 10 x 20 cm in A4 mount SOLD
Hermit crab & Giant tortoise
unsigned drawings both 8 x 11 cm in A4 mount SOLD
Collared Dove
14 x 20 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Dormouse
12 x 16 cm pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Little Awk
14 x 20 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Mistle Thrush 1981
9 x 13 cm signed pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Otter with fish
13 x 11cm signed Drawing in mount 25 x 20 SOLD
Otter, female
Signed Drawing 9 x 13cm in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Siskin
11 x 13 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25cm SOLD
Red-footed Boobies, Aldabra
signed ink drawing 12 x 17 cm SOLD
Leach's Petrel
14 x 20 cm Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Ravens and dead mouse
unsigned pen and wash drawing 13x19cm in mount 30 x 25cm SOLD Brown-necked Ravens, illustration from "The birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" p150
Humbolt penguin preening 1996
signed ink drawing 9 x 11 cm SOLD
Humbolt penguin calling 1996
signed ink drawing 8 x 14cm SOLD
Unst, ruined croft & sheep
unsigned drawing 20 x 23 cm SOLD Illustration from ' Scotland's Nature in Trust' p244
Unst, Shetland
pen and wash drawing 24 x 20 cm SOLD illustration from Scotland's Nature in Trust p240
King penguin brooding young
pen and wash 17 x 17 cm SOLD Illustration from The Penguins
Crab plovers
14 x 20 cm pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Tufted Ducks
20 x 15 cm pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Sandwich Terns by John Busby
Sandwich Terns
18 x 14 cm initialled pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Young Gannet
unsigned drawing 20 x 14 cm (in mount 30x25) SOLD illustration from Lines from Nature p.54
Manx Shearwaters
14 x 22cm initialled pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Kittiwake Preening Studies
signed pen and wash drawing 23 x 14 cm SOLD
Meadow Pipit and Cuckoo chick
13 x 11 cm pen and wash in mount 25 x 20 cm SOLD
Whimbrel
11 x 13 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25cm SOLD illustration from A Naturalist's Shetland p81
Hollyhock and Bee
unsigned drawing 21 x 10 cm in A4 mount SOLD original illustration from On the Rocks by Bryan Nelson p.5
Goldcrest
13 x 11 cm initialled pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Hedgehog and milk bottles
12 x 16 cm pen and wash in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Red-necked Phalarope, female
11 x 13 cm Pen and wash in mount 20 x 25cm SOLD illustration from "Birds of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" p 90
Drawing of Giant Tortoise on Aldabra by John Busby
Giant Tortoise, Aldabra
signed drawing 15 x 16cm SOLD
The 'Argo'
drawing 15 x 19 cm in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD the small vessel by which the artist 'escaped' from Aldabra
Loch Lomond
pen and wash drawing 30 x 23 cm SOLD illustration from Scotland's Nature in Trust p170
Starlings
12 x 18cm initialled pen and wash in mount 20 x 25cm SOLD
Common Sandpiper
12 x20 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30 cm SOLD
Song Thrush chick
9.5 x 11 cm signed Drawing in mount 20 x 25 cm SOLD
Lapwing and Ringed Plovers in a strong wind
unsigned drawing 10 x 14 cm (in mount 20 x 25 cm) SOLD
Merlin pair
unsigned drawing 9 x 15 cm SOLD original illustration from Lines from Nature p.113
Two Red Kite chicks
unsigned drawing 11 x 17 cm SOLD original illustration from Lines from Nature p.117
Brown Noddy Terns, Aldabra Lagoon
signed* pen and wash 14 x 23 cm SOLD *signed on back illustration from Lines from Nature p.25
Guillemot by John Busby
Guillemot
14 x 18 cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Glen Quoich, Mar estate
pen and wash drawing 31 x 24.5 cm SOLD illustration from Scotland's Nature in Trust p2, signed, 1998
Pink-footed Geese by John Busby
Pink-footed Geese
14 x 20cm initialled Pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Barn Owl Study 1
unsigned drawing with some colour 14 x 10 cm SOLD original from Lines from Nature p.144
Mallard rising
18 x 14 cm Pen and wash in mount 30 x 25 cm SOLD
Spotted Crake
14 x 15 cm pen and wash in mount 30 cm sq SOLD
Blackbuck and bee-eaters
unsigned pen and wash drawing 10 x 11.5 cm in mount 20cm sq SOLD
Sparrowhawk and prey
signed pen and ink drawing 1988 10 x 18 cm SOLD illustration from Birds in your Garden p.140
Ring Ouzel, Torridon
16 x 16 initialled Pen and wash in mount 30cm sq SOLD Illustration from ' Scotland's Nature in Trust' p81
Curlews on the ground by John Busby
Curlews on the ground
initialled 14 x 20 cm pen and wash in mount 25 x 30cm SOLD
Landscape Remembered, Rackwick Bay Orkney 2007
Landscape Remembered, Rackwick Bay Orkney 2007
signed oil on canvas 70 x 91 cm SOLD
Fulmar chasing a Peregrine, Harris
watercolour 15 x 20 in mount 25 x 30 SOLD
Lapwings in a Spring Field
SOLD
Birds over Pinkish Estuary c2001
Birds over Pinkish Estuary c2001
oil on canvas 50 x 39 cm SOLD
Dancing Cranes
Dancing Cranes
signed 32 x 20 cm SOLD
Crichton Evening 1993
Crichton Evening 1993
signed oil on canvas 36 x 46 cm SOLD
Landscape within a Granite Rock II 1988
Landscape within a Granite Rock II 1988
signed oil on canvas 86 x 110 cm SOLD The inspiration for a tapestry by the Dovecot Tapestry Company in Edinburgh
Landscape for a hunting kestrel
Landscape for a hunting kestrel
SOLD
Rainbow Landscape 1972
Rainbow Landscape
signed oil on canvas 120 x 173 cm SOLD
Blue-footed Boobies displaying Sold

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