{"title":"Grit \u0026 Grace: Iona","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"illuminated-ben-more","title":"Illuminated - Ben More","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new collection - The Last Munro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the summit, Iona is visible, and the memory of its monks, engaged in transcribing their illuminated scriptures, infuses the marks of this view, reflecting a sense of sacred presence. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55641542852995,"sku":"DPE-2025-11","price":1650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-The-Last-Munro-Illuminated-2048px.jpg?v=1748016244"},{"product_id":"cloak-of-many-colours-iona","title":"Cloak of Many Colours - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in the exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTIST'S DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur admiration for the raw stone crosses and austere ecclesiastical interiors of Iona is likely a modern perspective. In their own time, these crosses and spaces were probably richly coloured, reflecting the vibrant manuscripts produced by the island’s monastic community works filled with intricate illumination and decorative brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Book III, Chapter 1 of Life of St Columba, Adomnán evokes a powerful sense of the colour that once permeated Iona. He recounts a dream experienced by the mother of Columba before her son’s birth:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“An angel of the Lord appeared to St Columba’s mother in a dream one night after his conception but before his birth. He seemed to stand beside her and to give her a robe of marvellous beauty, decorated with what looked like the colours of every flower. After a little time he asked for it back and took it from her hands. Then he raised the robe and spread it out, letting go of it into the empty air… Then the woman saw the robe moving further and further from her as if in flight, growing greater and greater, so that it seemed broader than the plains and greater in measure than the mountains and the forests”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vision suggests a world of vivid colour and spiritual radiance—an atmosphere that may once have filled the crosses, buildings, and sacred spaces of Iona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57889860419971,"sku":"DPE-2026-01","price":2975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Cloak-of-Many-Colours-Iona-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777240246"},{"product_id":"great-house-iona","title":"Great House - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe architect never entirely leaves this painter. In Book II (45) of Life of St Columba, Adomnán recounts the blessing of favourable winds that enabled the transport of building timber to Iona Abbey. Although the size of the original church on Iona is unknown, the scale of the oak trees floated across the water and guided by groups of curraghs suggests that the building may have been substantial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdomnán describes two such journeys. Of the first he writes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“On the first of these, pine trees and oaks had been felled and dragged overland. Some were to be used in the making of a longship, and besides ship’s timbers there were also beams for a great house to be brought here to Iona”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe later records a second occasion:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The second time was several years later. Again, oak trees were being towed by a group of twelve curraghs from the mouth of the River Shiel to be used here in repairs to the monastery”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the distance of centuries, we can only conjecture, but the scale of these efforts suggests that the early buildings at Iona may have been far larger and more ambitious than we often imagine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57889882702211,"sku":"DPE-2026-02","price":1975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Great-House-Iona-Abbey-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777240418"},{"product_id":"duchess-cross-iona","title":"Duchess Cross - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Duchess Cross stands to the north of Iona Abbey, overlooking the Sound of Iona and facing the pink-red granite of the Ross of Mull.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Book I (25) of Life of St Columba, Adomnán recounts an incident from a period when Columba was writing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“One day, shouting was heard from the other side of the Sound of Iona. The saint was sitting in his raised wooden hut and heard this, saying:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘The man who is shouting across the Sound is too careless to watch what he is doing. Today he will tip over my little horn and spill the ink’.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHis servant Diarmait heard him say this and for a while stood by the door waiting for the clumsy guest to arrive so that he could keep him away from the inkhorn. But soon he moved away for some other purpose, and then the troublesome visitor arrived. As he went forward to kiss the saint, he upset the horn with the edge of his garment and spilt the ink”\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the spilled ink of this story, these paintings allow for the unexpected. The difference is that, here, such accidents are anticipated—and welcomed—as part of the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891151839619,"sku":"DPE-2026-03","price":3775.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Duchess-Cross-Iona-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777240445"},{"product_id":"sand-corridors-iona","title":"Sand Corridors - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe north end of the island is characterised by sharply delineated rock formations that create narrow passages and glimpses down to the sea. Unlike the gullies to the west and south, these corridors are filled with sand, and the ebb and flow of the waves continually reshape the scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting to S. J. Peploe in July 1932, Cadell observed:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e...that sand is now piled quite high up in the ‘corridors’ and the cliffs have in consequence lost their false majesty beloved by the designer of the B. and M. tombstone”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderneath this layer of painted sand the rocks do descend down into Cadell's lost cliffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891184673155,"sku":"DPE-2026-04","price":1975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Sand-Corridors-Iona-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777240475"},{"product_id":"made-or-found-iona","title":"Made or Found - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring a concert, composer and harpist Ailie Robertson described the discovery of a remarkable collection of early nineteenth-century tunes at Torloisk House on Mull. Later I asked how she composes: whether notes are consciously chosen or shaped by such research. Sometimes, she said, but at other times they are simply found, emerging through playing and experiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Iona Portrayed, Cadell is described as wearing “an overall of many colours, dyed by years of wiping his brushes on it.” That layered chaos echoes these works: paint is built up and scraped back, revealing marks that are “deliberately accidental”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891330425219,"sku":"DPE-2026-05","price":1975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Made-or-Found-Iona-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777240497"},{"product_id":"behind-the-veil-iona","title":"Behind the Veil - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by a letter from Peploe to a friend in November 1923, this painting captures something of the distinctive atmosphere of Iona in all weathers:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“We had miserable weather in Iona this year - the worst in living memory - gales and rain the whole time…But that kind of weather suits Iona: the rocks and distant shores seen through falling rain, veil behind veil, take on an elusive quality, and when the light shines through one has visions of rare beauty. I think I prefer it these days to your blue skies and clear distances”\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891340321155,"sku":"DPE-2026-06","price":3975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Behind-the-Veil-Diptych-Square.jpg?v=1777241144"},{"product_id":"glacial-times-iona","title":"Glacial Times - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmbedded in the sands of the northern beaches of the island are pink-shaded rocks amidst the darker outcrops. Argyll Vol. 4 – Iona by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland provides an explanation:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“In glacial times ice moved north-westward across Iona, bringing numerous erratic blocks from the Ross of Mull and from further east”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is amusing to think that, like us, the pink stones of the Ross of Mull are visitors to the island, and indeed contributed to the construction of the island’s ecclesiastical and domestic infrastructure, as the text elaborates:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“These surface erratics, and the numerous rounded granite boulders in the glacial sands and gravels, formed an important source of building material in the medieval and modern periods”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting seeks to capture how geology and human history have come full circle in this North beach landscape where the rocks are laid out in serried ranks like the monumental commemorative slabs in the Abbey precincts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891510583683,"sku":"DPE-2026-07","price":3775.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Glacial-Times-Iona-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777241314"},{"product_id":"colour-scrapes-iona","title":"Colour Scrapes - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor painters such as S. J. Peploe and Cadell, colour seemed to lie close to the surface of Iona itself. Writing in Iona Portrayed, Jessica Christian and Charles Stiller capture Cadell’s response to the island’s palette during the 1920s and 1930s:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Cadell was particularly attracted by the colours of Iona. He quite often interpreted them in daring and very personal combinations of bold and intense lime or mint greens, lemons, oranges, apricots, pinks and purples, which in his hands could express Iona to perfection”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this and related paintings, colour is first built up in underlying layers. Darker tones are then applied across the surface, before selective scraping reveals the submerged colours beneath rediscovering the vivid palette that lies hidden below.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891515269507,"sku":"DPE-2026-08","price":1975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Colour-Scrapes-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777241333"},{"product_id":"distant-tiree-iona","title":"Distant Tiree - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Ion\u003c\/a\u003ea. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIona’s notional visitor hub runs north–south along the east coast and east–west in the middle, with all the popular destinations branching off this L-shaped axis. Yet there are places to escape. Adomnán, in Book III (10), alludes to this desire centuries ago:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“One day, when St Columba was living on Iona, he set off into the wilder parts of the island to find a place secluded from other people where he could pray alone”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting imagines a setting on the west coast, with Tiree in the distance, hinting at the strange attraction and allure of being removed from the ebb and flow of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891518185859,"sku":"DPE-2026-09","price":1975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Distant-Tiree-Iona-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777241360"},{"product_id":"north-beach-iona","title":"North Beach - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTIST'S DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe northern and southern ends of Iona could hardly be more different. The flatter northern end, if the island is imagined as a boat, resembles a foredeck of machair grasses, edged at its prow by a crest of white sand and scattered rocks—some tumbled smooth, others cracked open or slowly worn away by millennia of the sea’s action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese paintings undergo a comparable process. Their surfaces are ground, rubbed, torn and sanded, echoing the physical forces that shape the shoreline and the long tradition of artists drawn to paint these beaches and the distant outlines on the horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891520643459,"sku":"DPE-2026-10","price":3975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-North-Beach-Diptych-Square.jpg?v=1777241386"},{"product_id":"south-shore-iona","title":"South Shore - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe southern end - the bow of Iona as a metaphorical ship - is a higher, more elevated platform of bogland compared with the northern machair. Approached from the mid-level east–west axis, this upland is intersected and drained by numerous gullies that define the island’s southern “hull.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome gullies form narrow slots down to the sea, such as the so-called “marble quarry,” while others open out more widely, like the channels leading to St Columba's Bay site where Columba may have first landed. This diptych of St Columba’s Bay seeks to capture the wetness of the bogland over the undulating, sculpted rock, down to its pebble beach, looking south across the water toward the distant horizon of his “Irish” homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891521790339,"sku":"DPE-2026-11","price":3975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-South-Shore-Iona-Diptych-Square.jpg?v=1777241427"},{"product_id":"colours-of-every-flower-iona","title":"Colours of Every Flower - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe west and southern uplands of Iona are lush and wet, their terrain gently kneaded to form a series of sheltered gullies that lead down to the shoreline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn capturing these soft folds of the land, the painting evokes the image from Life of St Columba in which the mother of Columba is given a robe ‘decorated with what looked like the colours of every flower.’ The work celebrates the vibrant, layered palette suggested by both landscape and legend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891527491971,"sku":"DPE-2026-12","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Colour-of-every-Flower-Iona-diptych-Square.jpg?v=1777241460"},{"product_id":"half-and-half-iona","title":"Half and Half - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marble quarry evokes both human craft and natural forces. In this painting, one side is marked by precise, geometric cuts, while the other is shaped by random washes, scrapings, and scratches, all beneath a merging sky and sea. The composition becomes a microcosm of the island itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt captures a snapshot of Iona’s enduring power of attraction: the interplay of its uniquely hand-built environment with the rugged, rocky landscape, lightly overlaid with soil and grasses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891531391363,"sku":"DPE-2026-13","price":1975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Half-and-Half-Iona-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777241486"},{"product_id":"marble-quarry-iona","title":"Marble Quarry - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTISTS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the north shore, artists have long been drawn to the “marble quarry” and its steep gully descending to the sea. The rock faces, sliced, levered, and split, now edge a piled-high graveyard of broken stones and the metal remnants of its extraction and processing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth S. J. Peploe and Cadell painted the site in situ - a challenging journey that required reaching the gully, setting up, and working on location. Here, it was human effort, not natural forces that shaped this fragment of the landscape, just as it did the abbey precincts, settlements, and tilled land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting captures the excavated rock slot, the leftover stone detritus, and the rusting frames once used to lift stone - a meditation on past human labour and the painter’s attempt to record it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891534799235,"sku":"DPE-2026-14","price":1975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Marble-Quarry-Iona-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777241513"},{"product_id":"industrial-monument-iona","title":"Industrial Monument - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit and Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in The Last Munro exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTIST'S DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArgyll Vol. 4: Iona by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland describes in detail the historical importance of what it calls an “Industrial Monument” in the south of the island:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Marble is found in several places on Iona, the most extensive source being located on the SE coast about 350m NE of Rubha na Carraig Géire. Here a vertical band of forsterite tremolite-marble, having an average width of about 7m, extends inland from the foreshore for at least 100m. The stone is white, streaked and mottled with yellowish-green serpentine. The visible remains, situated in a steep-sided gully with the main working-face on the W, evidently date from the most recent period of quarrying activity, early in the present century\u003c\/em\u003e”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe care lavished on this industrial site in the description matches that given to the ecclesiastical monuments of the island:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“They comprise machinery (including a producer-gas engine manufactured by Fielding and Platt, Gloucester, and a cutting-frame by G Anderson, Arbroath), a small rock-cut reservoir, a gunpowder store, and a roughly built quay which provided the only means of transporting equipment to and marble from the site”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, it is another of the island’s isolated escapes, where one can sit in isolation amidst the wasted rocks and rusting archaeology of the excavations. It’s also a prescient link back to the Abbey that “the high alter of the medieval abbey-church appears to have been made from this material”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891538174339,"sku":"DPE-2026-15","price":1975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Industrial-Monument-Iona-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777241549"},{"product_id":"radiance-iona","title":"Radiance - Iona","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20pages%20%E2%80%BA%20grit-grace-iona-collection\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Grit \u0026amp; Grace Iona Collection\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGrit and Grace: Iona\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach painting in the exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition, large-format book, featuring the full collection and David's insightful personal notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARTIST'S DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdomnán's Book III is filled with narratives of how St Columba harnessed the light of ‘Angels’. This concluding painting was inspired by Chapter 3 which captures one particular moment:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“...St Columba too entered the Lord's house. With his arrival the whole church was filled with a golden light shining from the heights of heaven. Even in his shut-off side-chapel, where Fergnae tried as best he could to lie concealed, the brilliance of that heavenly light came through the inner door of the chamber, which was not completely closed, and filled the room, causing Fergnae no little sense of fear. In the same way that no one is able to look directly at the sun at midday in summer without being dazzled, so Fergnae could not bear that heavenly brightness, for it was brighter than any light and completely dazzled his sight. Its radiance filled him with fear, so that his strength failed him utterly.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Grit-and-Grace-Iona-Artist-Statement-Web.pdf?v=1777927839\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"David Page Artist Statement\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eWant to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here. \u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57891542073731,"sku":"DPE-2026-16","price":2975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Radiance-Iona-Abbey-2048-sRGB.jpg?v=1777241581"},{"product_id":"harp-and-hat","title":"Harp and Hat","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is part of our current LUNGA exhibition and will be available for collection or dispatch after the exhibition closes on 20 September.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62269788684675,"sku":"DPE-2026-17","price":5950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Lunga-Harp-and-Hat-Diptych-Abstract-2048px.png?v=1788557622"},{"product_id":"guillemot-din","title":"Guillemot Din","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal acrylic on canvas by David Page. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is part of our current LUNGA exhibition and will be available for collection or dispatch after the exhibition closes on 20 September.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Page","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62269809426819,"sku":"DPE-2026-18","price":3975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5695\/6119\/files\/David-Page-Lunga-Guillemot-Din-Diptych-Abstract-2048.png?v=1788557671"}],"url":"https:\/\/calgarygallery.co.uk\/collections\/grit-grace-iona.oembed?page=2","provider":"Calgary Gallery \u0026 Gift Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}