Made or Found - 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:

During 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.

In 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”.

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