Jeff Aeling

Pines and Cloud near Denver - Realistic Landscape Oil Painting with Big Clouds

2009

This painting captures the transformative power of dusk—a moment Aeling has pursued for decades because of its shifting, unstable light. The expansive cloud formation radiates like a...

Aeling’s fascination with meteorology is unmistakable in this dramatic skyscape. Since his earliest years in the West, he has been captivated by weather’s capacity to alter the emotional temperature of a landscape. In this painting, the low, turbulent cloudbank reveals his deep knowledge of sky structures—an understanding informed by both scientific observation and personal experience. The luminous blue patches above suggest hope breaking through uncertainty, a recurring theme in his atmospheric work. Jeff Aeling Near Wagon Mound, NM Oil on panel 10h x 14w in 25.40h x 35.56w cm JAE055 Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character. Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings...

Aeling frequently depicts landscapes at moments when atmosphere dominates the ground, a fascination born from his time living in the West, where storms roll in across unbroken horizo...

This wide-format plains view connects directly to Aeling’s years spent traveling the West with his large-format camera, gathering source material for paintings that emphasize geologi...

Robin Cole’s “Cloud Study 1” is a compelling, 2025, oil on panel piece that depicts a skyscape at dusk. The painting embodies a tranquil scene, where the beauty of the sunset meets...

Michael Magrin's ( US based) "Southern Colorado Skies" is an original, handmade oil painting of a vast sky above the Colorado plains. This piece is fram...

Michael Magrin's ( US based) "Front Range Skies" is an original, handmade oil painting of a brilliant blue sky contrasted with billowing white clouds. This piece is framed and is rea...

Title: Pines and Sky Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23.5 x 23.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This p...