South Shore - 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:

The 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.”

Some 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.

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