Erica Keener, an artist from Preble County, uses bold colours to capture the world around us. Here are a few of her latest cloud related pieces.
You can see more of her art on her website
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June 28, 2025
June 17, 2025
Dan Barstow, Member 41,557 introduced us to the ‘Earth Music Theatre’ which he curates. Each week he features a new movie. As part of the Earth Serenade series, this music is by Dwayne Haggins & Friends accompanying beautiful images of Earth taken by the crew of ISS 65. The song “I Get Sad” evokes honest emotions as we watch the dancing aurora and night clouds. “Where it Wants” follows rivers, mountains and a hurricane.
June 14, 2025
Justin Auld, Member 29,902, is an artist working in Portland OR who specializes in painting clouds and their ability to suggest images and faces. Hispaintings are named Quantum Paintings for the tie in that he explorse about how, in the quantum environment, nothing exists without an observer. He told us “I use clouds as a vehicle to create a recognizable foundation for the viewer to engage with a seemingly normal cloudscape, but then by inserting faint suggestions of faces and forms within the viewer is then compelled to search for more imagery that is created by their own minds“
He can see more of his work on his website – justinauld.com
June 10, 2025
Rebecca Hosking, an Australian photographer, filmed this timelapse video along the Great Ocean Road, Fairhaven, in Victoria, Australia.
June 6, 2025
Zaina Saif sent her latest watercolour, Cumulus congestus. These clouds are also known as ‘towering cumulus’ and develop from cumulus clouds, sometimes prior to a thunderstorm.
June 3, 2025
Dan Barstow, Member 41,557 introduced us to the ‘Earth Music Theatre’ which he curates. Each week he features a new movie and this one is a montage of photos and music, celebrating One Earth – all in shades of blue. Astronauts took these serene and beautiful photos during December 2023, on ISS Expedition 70. All shades of blue, yet so diverse. For the music, Steve Thomas crafted his dreamlike Guitarscape, resonating with these mesmerizing views.
May 31, 2025
Holly Payne-Strange, Member 52,979, from New Jersey was enjoying the clouds at Thanksgiving in 2023 when she dreamt up this poem. We’ve paired it with an image of a Circumzenithal Arc over Broadway, NYC, US by Judy Schramm
To Have the Honor of a Cloud
Ice crystals in the sky,
Reflecting sunlight, conjuring shadow
An ever moving gallery of whimsy.
It sounds like magic.
Surely it should be, by all rights
This beauty we ignore, day by day.
I think it’s because they’re so far away,
Glory and valor we assume is out of reach.
There’s a certain proud nobility about them,
Stately and serene.
It all seems so easy, slow, even boring.
An illusion fostered by distance and assumption.
I can’t help but think
That if only we looked,
Really looked, and noticed, and appreciated,
Then maybe grace could be an everyday occurrence.
Maybe we would notice.
Lofty ideals, unencumbered and honest,
Could curl above us
Natural as the wind.
Maybe generosity would need no excuse
And sincerity would be easily accepted,
Suspicion and shame falling like shadow,
To some distant terrain we can’t imagine.
I have to say,
When I think of you,
I only see the clouds.
© Holly Payne-Strange
May 27, 2025
Christian Ehrig, Member 63,882 contacted us about an exhibition “So Close to Heaven” that is running from 24th May to 2nd November 2025 at the Kunsthalle, 26721 Emden, Germany. The exhibition focuses on the clouds with works from various eras and genres on display, from classical landscapes to contemporary installations.
You can see more about the exhibition on the Kunsthalle website
Illustration: Heiner Altmeppen, North German Landscape , 1980/81 (c) VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
May 24, 2025
Freedom Chelan Sabiston, Member 63,518, told us this painting was great fun as the watercolours bloomed across the paper just as clouds across the sky.
May 20, 2025
Don Hatfield, supporting member 42854, recently proposed ‘Move the Clouds’ by Shadowfax for the ‘Music to Watch Clouds By’ section of our website.
May 17, 2025
Haruko Greenberg, Member 65,103, submitted this photo of her “cloud mugs” which came out of the kiln early in April 2025.
She told us, “These ”cloud mugs” are my latest design. Thanks to Cloud Appreciation Society, the constantly changing sky became my inspiration. I look up at the clouds every day, feeling how beautiful this world is and feeling the connection to all the wonderful people I’ve never met who are doing the same in the different parts of the planet”.
May 10, 2025
Dan Barstow, Member 41,557 introduced us to the ‘Earth Music Theater’ which he curates. Each week he features a new movie and told about this one –
Inspiration4 was the first all-civilian mission to orbit Earth, resulting in these powerful photographs by Chris Sembroski who served as humanity’s eyes. The video was captured by astronaut Matthew Dominick from the ISS during Expedition 72. Earth’s images are set to music composed and performed by Hiroshi Ebina, a Japanese sound artist creating electronic/ambient music.
May 6, 2025
Ann Kraus, Member 48,329, sent us her painting “Holgate” which is part of an exhibition of her cloudscapes show “I Collect Clouds” that opened on 2nd May 2025 at the Hunt Library in Falls Village, Connecticut. She told us “the town is literally next door to the town where Eric Sloane painted his clouds and that you wonderfully highlighted recently in the Cloud-a-Days“.
You can see more about Ann’s work on her website
May 3, 2025
Hubert Klotzeck, Member 47,689, has a photographic exhibition, “Love of the Clouds” at the Bauerngerätemuseum Ingolstadt (Bavaria) running from 5th April to 31st October 2025.
The exhibition website page tells us –
The special exhibition “Cloud Love” presents impressive photographs by the Eichstätt cloud estimator Hubert P. Klotzeck. All the works on display were filmed in the Altmühl Valley around Eichstätt affiliated. With its 360-degree panoramic view, the Jura plateau offers ideal conditions for observing the sky and invites you to look up to the sky. In his photographs, Klotzeck captures a wide variety of cloud formations – from filigree veils and dramatic thunderclouds to delicate feather structures and monumental skyscapes. These unique snapshots of textures and light reflect the incredible diversity and dynamics of the sky. The exhibition invites visitors to take a closer look at the often overlooked beauties above our heads. Because sometimes all it takes is the courage to look up to discover the ephemeral splendor of the clouds.
April 26, 2025
Angela Winter, member 53,244, release an original song in September 2021 – one that was inspired by a quote that was shared in one of our regular newsletters.
April 23, 2025
Cecilia Temeperli, Member 64,974, created this watercolour of a sunrise in the Simpson Desert, Australia. She told us “I have been dabbling in watercolours for several years now and am still learning. This was one of my first small artwork of a sunrise in the Simpson Desert and it still resonates with me, since 2014, I have been joining yearly treks with pack camels in the Simpson Desert in Australia. On this occasion, we put our swags on top of a sand dune, and I woke to a stunning morning sky. I painted this from a photograph I had taken, and this watercolour conveys the mood of this sunrise so much better than the photo.”
April 15, 2025
Jan Boles, Member 13,316, sent us his humorous cloud related limerick. We have paired it with an image of a curtain of precipitation falling from a storm system over Charlo, Montana, US by Ruth Quist.
A cloud spotter, known as Horatio,
Was keen on words rhyming with “ratio.”
He often would sigh,
Looking up at the sky,
“That’s not ‘rain,’ it’s ‘praecipitatio.’”
© Jan Boles February 2024
April 14, 2025
Dan Barstow, Member 41,557 introduced us to the ‘Earth Music Theater’ which he curates. Each week he features a new movie and told about this one, “As we fly over Earth, clouds provide beauty, harmony, drama, and reveal Earth’s stories. From orbit, even night clouds offer their intrigues, as in this flight, with clouds dancing over Europe at night“.
This music is performed by Steve Thomas featuring the vocals of Patty Barkas.
April 8, 2025
Kathleen Wilson, Member 58,037 wrote to tell us about an exhibition by Andy Eccleshall which is running at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art until the 2nd June 2025. Andy is a fine artist with a fascination with the sky, light and atmosphere. The website tells us “Andy Eccleshall’s large-format oil paintings bring the sifting moods and vast panoramas of Western Washington to life“. You can see more about the exhibition on the museum’s website.
You can also visit Andy Eccleshall’s website to see more of his work.
April 1, 2025
Buckshot Dot, AKA Dee Strickland Johnson, sent one of her more recent poems. The image we’ve chosen to accompany it is a sunrise over Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain by Lourdes Sanches Munoz
A BRILLIANT SUNSET
I saw a sunset, just this evening.
Out the window of my den.
‘Twas so lovely, so inspiring
I ran to fetch my camera in.
Vermillion clouds –
a dozen of them, ‘gainst a sky
deep turquoise blue!
By the time I’d found my camera, tho’,
alas, the show was through.
Still, I know I’ll keep it always
in the lens of my mind’s eye:
Those amazing brilliant
orange pink clouds
dancing in a turquoise sky.
Buckshot Dot* © 2020
March 29, 2025
Lambrouleo Estharoe sent his composition for our Music to watch Clouds by section. He recommends this for not only cloud watching, but also Meditation and Bipolar Disorder.
March 25, 2025
Sue Hendry, Member 60,264, submitted her oil on canvas paintings, the one above is called “Dawn over Mossel Bay, South Africa”
March 24, 2025
Massimiliano Squadroni shared a new video of his project “Over the Clouds”. It was filmed from the Alps to Apennines on 25th January 2025
March 15, 2025
Dale Wayne suggested ‘Pareidolia’ by Buck Meek, for the Music to Watch Clouds by section of our website
March 11, 2025
Verena Foxx, Member 4,836 from Canada, sent us this photograph of the cloud art she has hanging in her home.
March 8, 2025
George Preoteasa, Member 41,445, was in the Yukon in September 2024. He told us This video is a compilation of the best shots I took during this vacation. The landscape is fantastic and clouds add drama. But the real treat is the northern lights which we saw both on moonless nights as well as on nights with an almost full moon. The latter look unreal, the sky is blue like in the daytime.
March 4, 2025
Antonio Martínez, a calligrapher from Spain is passionate about clouds. He told us, “I have dedicated 5 collages to Goethe’s poems in the original language, celebrating the work of Luke Howard: Atmosphäre, Cirrus, Cumulus, Stratus, Nimbus. They are handwritten in gothic script, with a square-tipped metal nib and ink on Strathmore toned gray A4 paper”. The image above is “Stratus” by J W Goethe.
March 1, 2025
Dan Barstow, Member 41,557 introduced us to the ‘Earth Music Theater’ which he curates. Each week he features a new movie and in this one, astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, shows the scene from ISS Expedition 69 on August 20, 2023, beginning with sunrise over the Atlantic clouds, then on to Europe, Saudi Arabia and dusk over the Indian Ocean. The movie is set to the inspiring music of the choral group Seraphim and composer Timothy C. Takach, recorded live in Chestnut Hill, MA. Recorded on 08/20/2023.
February 25, 2025
Sienna Gates, Member 64,436 sent her painting ‘Sky Seahorse’ that was inspired by a view from her car window. She told us, “I woke up to snow the next morning because of a cold front, so he was the last cloud I saw for several wintery snowdays away from school. I was experimenting with some acrylic paint and am really happy with how it turned out!”
February 22, 2025
Gary McArthur, Member 5,353, captured this two hour timelapse video of the sky over Tasmania on 27th January 2025. He told us “it shows the mesmerising effect of shadows from an upper altocumulus floccus layer projected onto a lower layer of stratocumulus. The added interest is that both layers are moving in OPPOSITE directions. It amazes me how much we can learn about clouds from time lapse – the only way you could ever detect this effect…”
February 15, 2025
Addy Linz, Member 64,475 suggested “Marvellous Clouds” by Cosmo Sheldrake, a UK-based composer, producer and live improviser. Running through all his work is a belief that the living world is a noisy and musical place with the power to change how we think, feel, and imagine.
February 11, 2025
Merry White, Member 64,916, sent us this painting by her brother, Henry Isaacs. It depicts a cloud over Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the coast of Maine in the United States.
You can see more of Henry’s work on his website
February 8, 2025
George Preoteasa, Member 41,445, was in the Yukon in September 2024. He told us, “this video was shot in Dawson City, the heart of the Klondike gold rush. Next to the town there is a mountain, Midnight Dome, with a road providing easy access to the top, which is 2000 feet higher. Waking up in the morning, I could see grey stratus clouds and I sensed an opportunity. I jumped in the car, drove up the mountain and, sure enough, I broke through the clouds and the fog, and I found myself above it. I was happy to see the gently waving undercast. Broken altocumulus covered the rising sun, but at some point the sun peeked through a gap and a magic glory appeared on the stratus clouds below. Soon after I could also see a cloudbow. They did not last long“.
February 4, 2025
Chris Tetley, Member 10,338, sent us his recent poem and photograph. He told us, “given the excessively dull and dreary weather we’ve had so far this season in the UK, the poem is a plea for winter cloud to be a little more considerate“.
Fairweather Friend
Clouds, I thought you were a friend,
But at present, I’m not so sure.
With cover and dullness slow to end,
And sunny hope you long obscure.
For why on many a winter’s day,
Do you stubbornly stay the same?
A landscape of endless gloomy grey,
And world trapped listless in your frame.
Then where your kindly clumpy mounds,
And their benign fair-weather wool?
When in summer sky, their sort abounds,
With these delights seems ever full.
I view this as a sky-drawn curtain,
The stage behind it being prepared.
And though duration looms uncertain,
It helps me through when I’ve despaired.
Yet I know that soon when all is set,
And brighter scenery is revealed.
I’ll my every complaint then forget,
As to the year’s new glory yield.
And I appreciate clouds need to gather,
To discuss, agree and plan.
But can you please reduce the blather,
For of this cloud, I’m not a fan.
© Chris Tetley
February 1, 2025
Sienna Gates, Member 64,436 suggested Above Clouds by Jhove for our Music to Watch Clouds by section. She told us “A beautiful, cozy, and warm Lo-Fi beat somehow perfectly expressed by the album’s cover art. It’s very sleepy, but chime-y and unique. I listen to a 24/7 Lo-Fi radio in the background sometimes, and this one always sticks out as a favourite”
January 28, 2025
Frederick Ballet, Member 64,810, is an award winning and published Fine Art Photographer specializing in abstract seascapes. While his postings on Cloud Appreciation website are representational he loves creating abstract images of the natural world. Fred splits his time between NYC and Long Beach Island, NJ, his next solo show will be at Pleiades Gallery in Chelsea, NYC and will run March 18-April 12 with the opening reception March 22 from 3-6PM.
More information can be found at his website www.frederickballetphotography.com and at www.pleiadesgallery.com closer to the show.
January 25, 2025
Ivy Nehamkin, Member 61,710, found this video on YouTube of two men’s quest to drink a cloud. We hope you enjoy it.
January 21, 2025
Guo Wei, Member 57,319, sent us a poem that he wrote after seeing dozens of large horseshoe vortex formations develop one after the other over Xiamen, China. He has kindly translated it into English for us and sent a photograph he took of the sky that day.
Miracle
- An Unbelievable Afternoon of Seeing over a Dozen Big Horseshoe Vortex Clouds one after another
When the sky’s inspiration explodes on a windy afternoon,
The sparse shadows of things stretch across the serene pedestrian street,
Still in my white coat, many years,
Which has been nurturing a tiny flame within my heart.
The spectacle of thousands of horses galloping suddenly unfolds,
Accompanied by the background music of the childhood version of the Journey to the West,
Which rushes out from an unknown old shop.
It seems like an invisible vortex hidden in the grey background, stirring,
And spitting out naughty children like smoke rings,
As if the desire – the source of life’s drive?
Has materialized with nothing into a masterpiece.
The children line up and vault over the huge tree in the middle of the street one after another.
Last night I shouldn’t have lost my temper,
Argued with you about whether a colander can scoop water to wash your hair.
“There really are miracles.”
I wish to watch them with you now, my daughter,
How lovely is the world in your eyes?
I stand like a white fool, rooted to the spot,
Repeatedly checking everything that slipped away during each sleepy afternoon,
Afraid that the supposed awake is a dream,
Afraid that photos will disappear like horseshoe vortex clouds, dancing and leaving no trace,
Until the curtain falls, the sky is empty,
No one has looked through the ecstasy within my coat,
Like an invisible man, transparently crying, stirring,
The cries of the traders around that has been passed from mouth to mouth for centuries.
The waterfall of Dichondra shakes, hooves become lighter, grey-grey hue remains.
© Guo Wei 2024
January 18, 2025
Sabine Lebenstedt, Member 64,298, suggested Brian Eno’s “Cloud 4” for our Music to Watch Clouds by.
January 14, 2025
Julia Dedier, Member 63,285, specialises in cloud art. These examples are painted in oil on canvas. Her website states “I want to convey the greatness and unique beauty of the clouds, inspiring people to slow down, reflect on the invisible wonders of the sky, and savor the moment of presence”.
You can see more work on Julia’s website
