About Iona

Feeling her way into colour, space and texture.

Welcoming emerging bodies, buildings, waterways and skies. Painting for Iona is about surrender and trust – surrendering to a flow and being shown worlds beyond worlds.

Iona, Portsoy
Third Sunday progress2
Reflective Piece in progress
Deep Snow progress (2)
Pic © Sandy Young 07970 268 944 Artist Iona Leishman with her painting at Stirling CastleW: www.scottishphotographer.com E: sj.young@virgin.net T: 07970 268 944

Solo Shows
2023 Logie Gallery Forres – Findhorn Park, Moray
2021 The Line Gallery, Linlithgow
2018 Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
2017 The Sutton Gallery, Dundas Street, Edinburgh
2015 ‘And Yet it Stands’, Chapel Royal, Stirling Castle
2014 ‘Warscape’ The National Trust for Scotland Battle of Bannockburn Centre and Chapel Royal, Stirling Castle
2013 ‘Catastrophe to Crown’ Chapel Royal, Stirling Castle
2013-2014 Anderson Strathearn, Edinburgh

Residencies
2011-2012 Historic Environment Scotland Stirling Castle
2012-2015 Cowane’s Hospital, Stirling

Professional Memberships
Visual Arts Scotland

Collections
University of Stirling
Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery 
Historic Environment Scotland
National Scotland for Scotland
51st Infantry Brigade Scotland

Loans
Scottish Government, Atlantic Quay, Glasgow

ENERGY, SPIRIT AND VIBRATION OF THIS LIFE

Painting hold great wonderment for Iona, the wonder of recording feeling, textures, spirit of place and time. This is the language she use to express how she experiences the energy, spirit and vibration of this life. Perhaps you will resonate with it. It's the textured surface that rivets her, a certain ambiguous, abstracted quality in paint that suggests worlds within worlds, faces and feelings.