Sheila Finch, an award winning artist, shared one of her latest pieces “Where Angels Soar”. On her website she tells us “Where Angels Soar began over 5 years ago when I recalled from memory a moment, a brief glimpse of an ocean sky that felt other-worldly. The clouds swept upward in layers with streams of light filtering throughout”.
Category: Cloud Art
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This piece is called “Coming Storm” and was painted using oils by Diana Howard, Member 41,003. She told us it’s of the Ste Victoire in Aix en Provence.
Marilyn Murphy, Member 41,144, is an Artist and Professor of Art Emerita at Vanderbilt University. This is one of her graphite drawings entitled “Air and Dreams”.
You can see more of her work on her Marilyn Murphy website
She also has a solo exhibition at the Haley Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee with some of her cloud series, including the one above. The exhibition also includes 19 of her relief prints. It opened on 24 February and will be up until 22 March 2024
Laurel Sherrie, a lifelong artist, paints landscapes of treasured places. She uses traditional oils and rich colours to create her pieces, which of course include wonderful skies. Here is the first from her Ethereal Skies series entitled “Clouds of Freedom”
You can see more of her work the Laurel Sherrie website
Sue Hendry, Member 60,264, submitted her oil on canvas painting “Late Afternoon Clouds over Auckland“. She painted it from a photograph taken from Devonport Ferry Terminal and told us she is “purely an amateur cloud loving artist”.
Sheila Finch, an award winning artist, has had her work exhibited through the USA and Europe. This is one of her latest pieces “The Light Within”. The description on her website states “As the sun slowly falls to the horizon in the afternoon, I’m offered a visual gift of light and color from layers upon layers of clouds out over the Pacific Ocean”.
You can see more of her work on her website, Sheila Finch Fine Art
J Pogalies from Madison, Ohio recently sent this example of her art and told us “I live on the shores of Lake Erie, a Great Lake! I photograph clouds and more almost daily. They are not altered except I then flip them or stack them to form new images and have them printed on large metal panels 1’x5’ up to 4’x5’“.
You can see more of her cloud art on her website
Larissa Gray is an award winning artist based in Kyneton, a town in the Macedon Ranges region of West Central Victoria, Australia. Although she specialises in small scale bronze and mixed media sculptures, she also likes to draw clouds. This one is called ‘Before the Storm’.
You can see more about Larissa and her work on her website
Gerard Watts, Member 62,339, sent us this painting by his Anna Watts. He told us
“Anna is an artist from Greystanes NSW Australia. She specialises in abstract art drawing and painting. Much of her art is inspired from nature and her surroundings. Anna’s other interests are music composition and puppetry”
Artist, Sophie Keir, sent this detail of an Oil on Canvas painting of stormy, dramatic clouds inspired by the often in the background skies of Old Master paintings. These skies are sometimes more interesting than the main focus!
You can see more of her paintings, prints and cards on her website.
Hayley Richards, member 52,003 lives in Hanover, New Hampshire and told us she has been inspired to paint clouds recently.
Pauline Bailly is a painter from Normandy, France who likes to paint Lady-Clouds, called “Les Femmes-Nuages” in French. She describes her work below:
My Cloudy Women are the link between reality and dreams. It is an ambiguity between two worlds, with a strong emphasis on introspection in a style sprinkled with surrealism, where onirism takes over and supplants all rationality.
The cloud is like a connection between the character’s states of mind and the world around us. Like an extension of the emotions, these cumulus clouds, for the most part, are a window onto thought. They are like dream vapors, melancholy clouds, like a veil of poetry rooted in the midst of landscapes, terrestrial or celestial settings.
These women are like guardians of their own universe, but also of those of others. The spectators can project their own stories and dreams into my paintings. A bridge is created, in a spirit of sharing hope and softness.
To find or buy my artworks, you can visit my website www.paulinebaillyart.com
Buy on Artmajeur https://www.artmajeur.com/pauline-bailly-1
Or contact me directly at pauline-bailly@outlook.fr
Social media @Les_Femmes_Nuages on instagram / Pauline Bailly – Peintures on Facebook
Ann Kraus, member 48,329, sent us this painting of the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean outside Halifax.
This is a recent painting by Kate Edge, Member 30,633, of Foel Cwm Cerwyn in the Preseli Hills, a range of hills in North Pembrokeshire, West Wales. She told us that on the day it was painted the Cirrus clouds were wonderful.
This scene was captured in Beenbrck, Namibia and was painted by artist, Penny Hauffe. Penny was born in Windhoek, Namibia and now lives in Virginia, USA.
You can see more of Penny’s work on her website
Schar Freeman, Member 54,318 resides on the island of Kaua’i in the Hawaiian Islands. She told us “I love my walks on the beach. I am a painter and love clouds. This one is my favourite beach walks on an overcast day with clouds that brought no rain..even with the Frog Face that lingers in this formation”.
Phil Erickson sent in a recent painting by his wife, artist Penny Hauffe. It depicts a dramatic formation on the Outer Banks of North Carolina (USA) at Nags Head.
You can see more of Penny’s work on her website
Fern Gadd, is a retired artist located in central Florida. She paints for pleasure and also to raise funds for local pet rescues. “High Country” is one in a series of her recent paintings.
You can see more of her work on her website
Ann Kraus, Member 48,329, sent us her painting “Puffy Spring Clouds” from a series of paintings on her chosen subject matter of clouds.
You can see more of her work on her website: Kraus Studio
David Evans, Member 61,735, sent us a recent painting. He told us “This is a painting I made of a tremendous cloud which appeared suddenly over a beach in Tadoussac, Quebec, Canada on a sunny day in 2018”.
Mark Bricknell, Member 13,136 is a photographer who appreciates the beauty and ephemeral nature of clouds.
He told us “I have taken some images and would like to share them with the other members. This work is an appreciation of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz whose work in 1922 called ‘Equivalents’ has always been an inspiration to me..! The exact location of longitude and latitude is on the poster”.
Richard Bacon, Member 51,546, sent us this photograph of a mural by Chris Finlayson, a New Zealand artist, who completed this work in 1984 at Wakefield Quay, Nelson, New Zealand. Chris Finlayson said of the work, “Whatever I painted there on the edge of land and sea …. would stand as a portal of softer human expression within the context of a hard edged, often unforgiving artificial urban environment.” The building once housed the electricity generating plant providing power to Nelson City. “Aotearoa” at the bottom of the mural is the Maori name for New Zealand, and the most common translation of this is “The Land of the Long White Cloud.”
Regina Calton Burchett, member 51261 sent her recent artwork “Kiss the Sky”.
You can see more of her paintings on her website.
Melody Serra, Member 56,638 told us “This is a sketch overlaid on sky blue hot press paper. The sketch was made on a clear day in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco”.
Fern Gadd sent this painting entitled “High Country”. She told us “there are the most spectacular cloud formations in western US, and I frequently use them as references in my paintings”.
Artist, Denise Clark Weston, sent us her latest oil on canvas “Ocean Walk” painting. You can see more of her work on her website.
Artist, Amanda Cassidy, Member 60,026 created this stop frame animation entitled ‘Solitary Skies’. You can see more of her work on her website
Doug MacBean sent us his painting entitled “Dofasco 2000 Trail in Hamilton”. It was sold through the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario in 2022 and is oil on canvas. He told us “I’ve been painting clouds for over 30 years and I feel I’m getting better”
Evelyn Wayment, Member 58,578, painted this cloud for a school project – we think it’s great and would love to see more of her art.
David Fitch is an artist residing in Texas and Maine. He told us, “as a private pilot I spend alot of time looking at clouds, mostly trying to figure out how to get over, under, around or through them. So their ever-changing shape is of keen interest to me. As an artist I thoroughly enjoy recreating these forms like this one which represents a summer afternoon Cumulus congestus fueled by the warm moist air coming off the Gulf of Mexico in South Texas”.
“Sky Puzzle” is a recent painting by Ned Stern who works from his studio at The Pendleton Art Center, in Cincinnati, where he can be found daily. More of his work can be seen on his website.
Ned Stern has been painting professionally since he graduated from college. He received his degree in Fine Art from The American University in Washington, D.C. This is one of his recent paintings entitled “In the Clouds”. You can see more of his work on his website
Sherry Palmer, Member 27,151 sent us her recent painting of Beinn Sgritheall, the highest mountain on the Glenelg Peninsula in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.
Daryl D Johnson, member 45,193 is an artist based in New Orleans. She told us “Surrounding my studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA are spectacular skies and sunsets. I paint to express the exploding chi of clouds”.
Karen Fitzgerald is a mid-career visual artist living and working in New York City.
Hyejin Park sent us the oil painting of the view from her house. What a great sky!
Ian Morris is an artist from Manchester, England. He works in different mediums and sent us one of his recent cloud related artworks.
Artist, Hyejin Park, has sent us her latest watercolour – a peaceful cloud to bring some calmness to our day.
Martien Van Beeck is an artist based in Ghent, Belgium. His painting “Sky #32” is from an ongoing series of cloudy skies
Michelle Purves, Member 59,285, is besotted by clouds and she tells us “my passion is to paint the ever illusory, changing, ethereal beauty that connects sky to the landscape. In Australia my inspiration comes from the remote pristine inlets, and the continuum of soaring skies”.