Coming soon! A selection of John’s landscape pictures will be on show at the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh for three weeks from Tuesday 4th May 2021. I’m delighted to say that this is just after Covid regulations change to allow you to actually visit the gallery – in person (what a strange thought!) – […]
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Silent Landscape Exhibition
The Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh showed a major exhibition of the distinctive landscape paintings of John Busby during the Edinburgh Arts Festival. Featuring many previously unseen paintings, all held by the artist’s estate, this exhibition showed Busby’s avid passion for panoramas and ‘bird’s eye views’ undertaken during his prolific career. Landscape has always been […]
Landscape Looking
John Busby taught for thirty years at the Edinburgh School of Art so I was not surprised to find this handout amongst his papers. Created for his third year Painting and Drawing students it tries to get them to see beyond the merely visual, to really look, with understanding, at the processes that form the […]