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Landscape and wildlife artist, illustrator and author

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landscapes

New Exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

April 10, 2021

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!) – […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Landscapes Tagged With: exhibition, landscapes, oils

Silent Landscape Exhibition

July 27, 2019

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 […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Landscapes Tagged With: exhibition, landscapes, oils

Landscape Looking

July 27, 2019

Handout on Looking at Landscape by John Busby

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 […]

Filed Under: Early Works, Landscapes Tagged With: ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, landscapes, teaching

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