Michael Pockley, Member 63,102 recently painted this sunrise over the forest, as seen from his bedroom in Bohemia.  He told us his paintings “are not simply about the clouds themselves but about the manner in which the water vapour in the atmosphere interacts with the sun”.

Click here to see more of his work

Holly Lane is a Californian artist who has been exhibiting for more that 30 years.  She told us “I LOVE clouds, but this is the first painting and frame I’ve done that is dedicated to the soaring experience of watching clouds shift in a for-get-me-not blue summer sky”.   

You can see more of Holly’s work on her website – www.hollylaneart.com

“We Shall Rise”, © Holly Lane 2024, 36.5 x 12.75 x 5.75 inches Acrylic and carved wood

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”.

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.