The definition of Scottish Art is wide, encompassing artworks and artists with many kinds of associations with Scotland. The pictures in The Fine Art Society‘s current exhibition in Edinburgh Fine Shadings: 250 Years of Painting in Scotland illustrate not just the country’s landscape, for which Scottish art is best known, but its culture too, such as daily life, farming, fishing and religion. Within them are observations of painters whose familiarity with their subject is the very essence of the work.