Read the wonderful cloud poems by the winner and runner-up of our recent cloud poetry competition with Candlestick Press.
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May 8, 2017
April 28, 2017
Matthew MacKenzie, member 42913, spotted this article on the BBC News website.
In 1892 Edvard Munch painted The Scream and in the background the sky in full of colourful wavy lines. Scientists from Norway have theorised that these are probably Mother of Pearl or Nacreous clouds. These clouds are usually spotted two hours after sunset or just before sunrise and are extremely bright with vivid, shifting iridescent colours.
Click here to read the full article.
April 25, 2017
Dean Hunt, member 43078, from Perth Western Australia visits Darwin Northern Territory each year to do a little bit of cloud watching and storm chasing.
April 15, 2017
Cloud of the Month for April is the accessory cloud known as a ‘pileus’…
April 12, 2017
Didier Gobert is a French painter who describes his artistic concept as: Supersonique 101, Movement in art and blue sky.
April 7, 2017
Cloud enthusiast, Lena Arnland, suggested “Nuages” by Django Reinhardt as some relaxing music to watch clouds by.
April 4, 2017
Cloud Appreciation Society founder, Gavin Pretor-Pinney was recently interviewed about the new cloud type ‘asperitas’ by the Quirks & Quarks show on CBC Radio Toronto, Ontario.
March 28, 2017
Professor John Thornes (member 26) is an expert on the depiction of weather in art. He has recently had an essay published in Tate Magazine in which he solves a puzzle about the rainbow depicted by the English landscape artist, John Constable, in his painting Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows. Professor Thornes’s work is a great demonstration of how science can inform art and vice-versa.
View a PDF of “A Reassessment of the Solar Geometry of Constable’s Salisbury Rainbow” by Professor John E Thornes.
March 24, 2017
The cloud that we identified ten years ago is being accepted by the World Meteorological Organisation this week…
March 17, 2017
Videographer, Jesús Olmo, has created a series of great cloud videos that will will be sharing over the next few weeks. Here is the first…
March 15, 2017
It is not often that we at the Cloud Appreciation Society wish the clouds away…
March 7, 2017
Marie-Judith Jean-Louis has created a project which consists of creating 100 paintings of clouds in the colour trends of the year for cloud art lovers.
February 28, 2017
Petrina Anthony sent us this poem from her home in Malaysia
February 22, 2017
Emilie Lemay (member 12,950) lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada
February 17, 2017
Ad Tinkham is a US artist represented by Lucky Street gallery in Key West, Nash Gallery in Easthampton, Ma. and Gallery 65 on William in New Bedford,Ma.
February 15, 2017
In this great time-lapse video, Morten Rustad makes a great case for Norway as a cloudspotting destination.
February 9, 2017
The aliens have landed in February’s Cloud of the Month…
February 7, 2017
Peter Franke submitted a poem that he wrote circa 1976
January 31, 2017
We were recently contacted by Dan Clouse, Society Member 42181, who had read an article about the cyanometer, an instrument created purely to measure the blueness of the sky.
January 26, 2017
We can’t believe how many amazing sky photographs the users of our CloudSpotter iPhone app have now sent in…
January 20, 2017
Calling all cloud poets! We are launching a poetry competition with Candlestick Press
January 19, 2017
Matthias Scholl is a talented artist with great enthusiasm for Clouds.
January 16, 2017
Stephanie Green is a poet, writer, novelist, playwright who lives with her husband in Edinburgh. This a wonderful poem about the Northern Lights
January 13, 2017
Timothy Joseph Elzinga from Northern Ontario had captured ‘light pillars’ which he says “looked like someone from Star Trek was trying to beam people up“.
January 11, 2017
Suzanne Winckler, member 41844, has suggested “Fog Bank” by Mary Halvorson Octet as some music to watch clouds by.
January 6, 2017
Cloud of the Month for January is a rain cloud that changed its mind…
January 6, 2017
Rob Youngson is a digital artist who creates high-quality digital prints of contemporary landscapes, inspired by the sublimes of the Romantic painters of the 18th and 19th century.
December 22, 2016
Murray Kirkland (Society member 36,227) is an artist based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
December 20, 2016
A peaceful cloud poem by JJ Evendon who says about it “I suppose when you look at some of the clouds, they are, just like floating mushrooms”.
December 16, 2016
Marco Cingolani, Society member 7635, has shared this timelapse video taken on the night of 14th November when a Super Moon was visible.
December 9, 2016
Sheila Finch, member 42153, is a professional artist who loves to paint the clouds on the coast of North California.
December 6, 2016
Cloud enthusiast, Katy Snodgrass, has shared this night time time lapse she shot in early November.
December 3, 2016
Cloud of the Month for December is the ghost of rainbows past…
December 2, 2016
We were recently contacted by Jan McIntyre, member 34,229, about a photographic art exhibition by Ralph Kerle which is currently showing at the Sagra Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
November 25, 2016
Karen Reese Tunnell (member 41002) is an artist working in Atlanta, GA
November 22, 2016
Yvonne Whiteley, member number 17243 told us about this ‘city in the sky’ which was featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
November 16, 2016
Linda Pearlman Karlsberg, member 40985, is an avid cloudspotter, gazer and lover. Her artwork has been focused on the sky for quite a while.
November 14, 2016
A layer of cloud covers the summer sky,
pleasant without menace.
Tantalisingly beautiful.
Serene by absence of noise.
Drawn by wind carriages.
The sun’s rays exposing momentary holes,
transformed into stilts of light.
Radiant.
Only to disappear then reappear.
All random.
The shadow makers continue their passage,
individually, collectively –
it matters not,
for they are there,
above.
Always above
without torment or whisper.
© JJ Evendon January 2016
November 11, 2016
Earlier this month, a peculiar ring appeared in the clouds over Warwickshire, England…
November 10, 2016
Roberto Porto captured this timelapse of a storm system over Roque del Conde, Tenerife.
