Category: Cloud Art

Got cloud art to contribute to the Cloud Appreciation Society? Submit in your work and we will be happy to consider sharing it here.

From Yvonne Maximchuk

Yvonne Maximchuk, member 50,031, has been an artist and cloudspotter for many years. She told us “I’ve always been a cloud gazer and they’ve shown up in my work since my first paintings in 1970…”

From Clare Scott

Clare Scott, member 39,730, created this plein air, pastel painting of a pyrocumulus cloud building from one of the largest wildfires (Cameron Peak Fire) in Colorado north of where she was painting.

Afternoon East

Karen Fitzgerald is a mid-career visual artist living and working in New York City. Having been born and raised in Wisconsin watching the sky is an essential part of her day.

From Judy Friesem

Judy Friesem, member 50,071 created this watercolour of a stormy day at the beginning of the pandemic. We love the way she has captured the drama of the sky.

From Mick Garton

Mick Garton, member 11,554, painted this stormy morning crossing of the (now old) Forth Road Bridge towards Edinburgh in mixed acrylic/watercolour in 2012

From Jackie Williams

Artist, Jackie Williams, has been painting with watercolour for some time now and in one of the last courses she attended they also painted clouds. She told us, “it was quite tricky to capture those ever-changing beings but real fun”.

‘Luchtig’ – A Collection

Alrik Swagerman, member 56,484, has spent the last five years photographing the sky in his hometown Scheveningen, The Netherlands, mainly endeavouring to capture its stillness and open space that he experiences on the coast. It has resulted in a collection of 32 photographs entitled ‘Luchtig’.

Gold Clouds

“Gold Clouds” oils on canvas, 20 x 30″ is by Daryl D. Johnson, member 45,193. She is based in New Orleans and paints clouds inspired by dramatic colors and forms she has observed.

On Cloud Art

Eli Bajet, member 31,060, isbased in Ontario Canada and takes pictures of the clouds, dressing them with colors to create abstract colorful art.

From Barbara Miller

Barbara Miller, member 56,107, is an aviator in Annapolis, Maryland. She has recently begun a series of paintings based on her up-close and personal experience of clouds

A Cloudy Day of Art

Kathleen Janick, member 49,856, sent us this tongue-in-cheek poetic expression of her experience in the CAS cloud watercolor workshops hosted by Donna Levinstone and Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The painting here is one she made during the workshop.

Foel Drygarn

Kate Edge, member 30,633, is in the process of moving the Pembrokeshire, UK, to live in and around the Preseli Hills. She told us this painting was done in her ‘car studio’ and depicts the Iron Age Hill Fort called Foel Drygarn from a high top position in a local farmers field.

Cloud Hats

Nate Barton, member 46,647, is a self taught artist, teacher and maker in Asheville, North Carolina. As well as making hats, he also includes handpainted cloudscapes on them.

You can see more of his work on his Instagram

From Malcolm Wilson

Malcolm Wilson, member 41,548, painted this scene using oils on canvas of the clouds above Cumbria. It is 3.5 metres long and is to hang in a public room of a Grade 2 Listed Hotel.

From Dolores B Mitchell

Dolores B Mitchell has loved looking at the sky since childhood, when she would imagine walking around in splendid cities in the clouds. This is one of her cloud inspired paintings.

From Ann Kraus

Ann Kraus, member 48,329 is a painter of clouds. Her website says “Being focused and cloud aware is certainly a needed antidote for our downward gaze at our digital screens”.

From Malcolm Tuffnell

Malcolm Tuffnell, member 55,301, tells us he has always been in awe of thunderstorms, especially squall lines, and saw many of them while living on the east coast for nine years.

From Maia Eden

Maia Eden is an artist who recently started a new upcycling business which includes painting furniture. She has just completed this commission for a teenage girl’s chest of drawers.

From Daryl D Johnson

Daryl Johnson, member 45193, is an artist based in New Orleans. This painting is called “Clouds Wrapping” 24 x 48″ oils on canvas and was inspired by how clouds can be so dynamic and seem to cause the earth to breath.