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拍品专文
Peploe first painted on Iona in 1920 with Cadell, who had persuaded him to join him on a trip there. Cadell was the first of the Colourists to visit Iona, in 1913, when sailing with a friend around the Western Islands. He was to make repeated trips there, often spending entire summers in the western Hebrides in retreat from the hubbub of life in Edinburgh. Their trip to Iona together beginning a decade which saw both artists make many visits and complete hundreds of paintings of the island.
Particularly to the north looking towards Mull, the island soon became a place of personal inspiration for Peploe, to which he returned year after year. He valued the beauty, ruggedness and human scale of its rocks. Immediately captivated by the remote, beautiful island - enchanted by the deserted white sandy beaches and rocky shores, the sea which changed colour with the weather from turquoise and azure blue to dark green and grey, and the views which altered every time he looked at them.
The artists would often sit side-by-side painting an identical view, and whilst they quite naturally influenced each other they also brought to the same subject their different styles and approaches. If Peploe was inspired by Iona's structure of rocks, sand, sea, mountains and sky, Cadell saw these primarily in terms of pure colour. Peploe and Cadell both conveyed the particular atmosphere but each responded to the landscape in a highly personal way. The machair, beaches and rocky outcrops under an ever-changing light provided them both with an endless subject matter.
Particularly to the north looking towards Mull, the island soon became a place of personal inspiration for Peploe, to which he returned year after year. He valued the beauty, ruggedness and human scale of its rocks. Immediately captivated by the remote, beautiful island - enchanted by the deserted white sandy beaches and rocky shores, the sea which changed colour with the weather from turquoise and azure blue to dark green and grey, and the views which altered every time he looked at them.
The artists would often sit side-by-side painting an identical view, and whilst they quite naturally influenced each other they also brought to the same subject their different styles and approaches. If Peploe was inspired by Iona's structure of rocks, sand, sea, mountains and sky, Cadell saw these primarily in terms of pure colour. Peploe and Cadell both conveyed the particular atmosphere but each responded to the landscape in a highly personal way. The machair, beaches and rocky outcrops under an ever-changing light provided them both with an endless subject matter.