Colour Scrapes - Iona

Original acrylic on canvas by David Page. 

This painting is one of David's new 2026 collection, Grit and Grace: Iona. 

Each 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.

ARTISTS DESCRIPTION:

For 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:

“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”.

In 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.

Want to learn more about the collection? Read David's full artist statement here.