Whether it’s blawin’ a hoolie or time for taps-aff, the Scottish people and their language have had a long relationship with our changing weather, with Scots boasting an incredible 421 words for snow. This exhibition features over 30 works from Dundee’s nationally-recognised Collection of Fine and Applied Art by a range of artists who have captured Scotland in all weathers. Scots words such as gowstie, ralliach, fissle and feuchter have been paired with works on display to illustrate how weather affects our lives and moods.

The exhibition includes majestic skyscapes by artists influenced by abstract expressionism such as Fife-born John Houston and the American Jon Schueler, whose work is pictured – a second world war pilot who ‘found every passion in the sky’ – while also on view is Stanley Cursiter’s ground-breaking Rain on Princes Street (1913). Inspired by the Italian Futurists, it suggests the fragmentary and distorting effects of pouring rain.

Also represented are three artists who number among the finest Scottish landscape painters – John Morrison, William McTaggart and James McIntosh Patrick – who highlight how colour, form and technique can be used to describe the physical qualities of the weather: John Morrison said, ‘Because of the changing weather and the stately skies we enjoy, the same motifs never pall.’