Cloud Paintings

Above, the sky is expansive and luminous, with drifting clouds that lend the painting a sense of openness and calm, offsetting the quiet strength of the ships below.

The horizontal format reinforces a sense of movement — the eye travels across rather than down, following the drift of the swarm with the ease of watching clouds. The silver ground c...

Two imposing tall ships dominate the composition as smoke and flashes of cannon fire erupt between them, while rolling dark waves contrast dramatically with the luminous blue sky and...

At the centre of the composition is a traditional sailing boat, its dark sail rising dramatically against the illuminated clouds. A small lantern glows warmly aboard the vessel, its ...

Love, passion, frendship. Storm with blue clouds. Sunrise or sunse.Perhaps the moon in fever of lust?

Between and beneath them the Bay of Villefranche opens out in flat bands of turquoise and aquamarine, with a scatter of small pink-lit clouds low over the water and the far shore red...

Influenced by the sweeping openness of the prairies and her experience above the clouds, Miller’s work explores how shared spaces can foster a sense of connection, bringing to life a...

The landscape is empty and peaceful, with little movement apart from the soft caress of clouds atop the distant mountain peaks. Trim's masterful use of color and texture brings the ...

Subtle touches of pale yellow and white along the horizon suggest sunlight breaking beneath the clouds, lending the landscape a quiet sense of drama.

The outdoors comes indoors with cotton ball clouds entering an interior space. A close-up of a sexy, gorgeous girl with an open mouth and a curled tongue hangs on a wall as if it w...

Wonderful seascape in the evening with the moon shrouded in clouds. Painted by British artist James Nesfield Forsyth in 1899.

With a lush, impressionistic style and a rich use of color and visible brushstrokes, the large, mature trees in full bloom are covered in voluminous pink and white blossoms that crea...

The piece depicts a fishermen holding rods on the water's edge with bare trees and houses in the distance and white clouds overhead. Dimensions: Framed: 15"x20" Unframed: 7"x12" Pr...

Katherine Kean’s paintings seek moments of breath-taking transition in nature; a gathering of clouds or changing tides; times when the elements of the landscape combine with the alch...

The sky, a soft gradient of blues, is accentuated by fluffy white clouds, enhancing the idyllic atmosphere. Meticulous brushwork brings to life the textured foliage and rippling wate...

Seascape and Cloud is an evocative abstract painting capturing the quiet drama between sea and sky.

The light-coloured vase barely holds this cloud of flowers, which seems to be striving to rise into the sky.

The painting is dominated by the extraordinary cloud mass that occupies the upper half of the composition.

The calf takes centre stage against a peaceful, cloud-brushed blue sky, its face rendered with extraordinary attention to detail.

This dramatic early-20th century coastal scene depicts stormy seas crashing against rugged cliffs, whilst the sun breaks in the clouds above. Signed. On canvas on stretchers. Image s...

A tall Baroque campanile stands at the left against the sky, with the long apricot-and-cream flank of a convent or palazzo running away beneath it under a dark red roof; beyond, scat...

A charming original watercolour by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924–2021) depicting a group of traditional village houses beneath a bright blue and softly clouded sky. The composition...

Above it all, softly rendered clouds press in from the upper register, grounding the geometric precision of the composition in something organic and sky-like, a device that adds unex...

The unusually spacious composition, with its high horizon of cloud-filled sky and broad uninterrupted foreground, reinforces the contemplative character of the work.

Influenced by the sweeping openness of the prairies and her experience above the clouds, Miller’s work explores how shared spaces can foster a sense of connection, bringing to life a...

A track winds down through a green hollow towards a village of white cottages and red-tiled roofs strung along the middle distance, with cultivated strip fields running away behind t...

Provenance: Guillaume Le Floc'h, Saint-Cloud, 2 June 2013, lot 7 / Private collection - France

Grey, navy, blue, clouds, landscape, brown, beach 49 x 37" oil on canvas, maple frame Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on ca...

In this contemporary figurative oil painting on canvas, a jumping figure seems to float over a field with arms outstretched while cumulus clouds float in the sky overhead. Signed, da...

Bales in the Cotswolds, summer with cumulus clouds. Additional information: Oil Paint on Canvas 54 H x 54 W x 5 D cm Sold framed Image size: Height: 50cm Width: 50cm Framed Si...

Clouds are visible masses of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

The glowing foliage, expansive meadow, distant mountains, dramatic cloud formations, and intricate foreground vegetation are rendered with extraordinary technical refinement, creatin...

The radiant sky, monumental cloud formations, distant mountain silhouettes, and brilliantly rendered crimson rose are depicted with astonishing clarity and emotional intensity, trans...

Through this vast sea of stones, a narrow path of bleached driftwood meanders, guiding the viewer’s gaze toward the horizon where the earth meets the water under a dramatic, cloud-la...

Owen Waters (1916-2004) The Cloud shadow, Norfolk Signed, inscribed with title to the reverse Oil on board 9 x 12 inches excluding frame 13 x 16 inches with the frame Owen Waters wa...

The dramatic sky, illuminated by warm afternoon light breaking through gathering clouds, provides an atmospheric backdrop, while the expansive landscape and distant figures create a ...

An atmospheric original watercolour by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924–2021) depicting a bridge spanning the River Seine in Paris beneath an expansive, cloud-filled sky. The broad st...

These lighter notes bring a sense of atmosphere and openness, as though sunlight is breaking through clouds and illuminating sections of the landscape below.

Clouds are visible masses of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

Description An original watercolour by the French Impressionist Maurice Mazeilie (French, 20th century), depicting a dramatic coastal scene beneath brooding storm clouds. Fishing boa...

Above them the sky is a calm blue, beneath them white clouds catch the sunlight and part to reveal glimpses of the British coastline below.

Water horizons, sunsets, sunrises, clouds became her endless inspiration. She dedicated her life to recreation of those beauties on her canvas.

Nelson grounds his work in texture, covering his canvases in a wash of cloud-like, feathered marks before adding planes of organic lines and flurries of petal-like groupings.

Words that describe this painting: iceberg, ice, bay, water, ocean, Alaska, mountain, sunset, cloud, glacier, fjord, water, impressionism, seascape, oil painting, blueIce Flows on Ya...

Swirls of red, coral, and violet rise against a backdrop of cool blue and misty white, creating the impression of a mountain form emerging from cloud and sky. The composition exempli...

His marine paintings combine carefully rendered vessels with dramatic, often Turneresque atmospheric effects involving smoke, steam, clouds, fog, and shifting light. These scenes of ...

Water horizons, sunsets, sunrises, clouds became her endless inspiration. She dedicated her life to recreation of those beauties on her canvas.

Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special light...

Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special light...

Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special light...

Vera dropped tiny tetrahedron balloons carrying Douglas Fir seedlings into cleared areas, took time-lapse photographs, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create special light...

Clouds are visible masses of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

On the hill, like a fairy-tale ship amongst the clouds, rises the snow-white silhouette of the basilica, watching over Paris from the heights of the centuries.

Katherine Kean’s paintings seek moments of breath-taking transition in nature; a gathering of clouds or changing tides; times when the elements of the landscape combine with the alch...

In this contemporary still life painting in oil on canvas, a teapot is surrounded by teacups on a black tabletop against a background with storm clouds. Signed, dated and titled on v...

Clouds are visible masses of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

Clouds are visible masses of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

A soft rainbow arcs gracefully across the grey clouds. This fleeting light brings a sense of hope to the moody atmosphere.

Waves crash against a sea wall whilst distant figures line the street in this captivating nineteenth-century coastal scene. Brooding clouds loom over the sea, where a small sailing b...

The interplay of the tangible (the tiled floor and wood of the doorway) with the ephemeral (clouds, sea spray, memory) is heightened by Bennett's hyperrealistic style.