Jeff Aeling

Valley South of Junction City, Kansas - Realistic Landscape Oil Painting

2010

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...

This bright pastoral scene reflects Aeling’s childhood memories of Missouri’s rolling farmland, where narrow waterways cut through open fields. The meandering creek, painted with a f...

This dramatic cloud form rising above a quiet field embodies one of Aeling’s central artistic pursuits: portraying the monumental scale of weather in the American interior. Growing up in regions where sky occupies most of the visual field, he learned to read clouds as both structure and story. The fiery illumination suggests late-day thunderstorms rolling across open grasslands—an experience he has described as both terrifying and transcendent. The work continues his exploration of how atmosphere shapes emotional experience. Jeff Aeling Pines and Cloud near Denver Oil on panel 36h x 24w in 91.44h x 60.96w cm JAE046 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...

Ahzad Bogosian Breaking Light East of Bloomington, 2021 oil and acrylic on canvas 30h x 40w in 76.20h x 101.60w cm AZB112 Ahzad Bogosian SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2025 Ahzad Bogosian, Gall...

Michael Magrin's ( US based) "On the Horizon" is an original, handmade oil painting of a sunset above Colorado plains. This piece is framed in a "barn wood" frame and is ready to han...

Michael Miller's beautiful original photorealist Midwestern landscape painting "Camp Road" (2024) depicts a Midwestern barn lying at the end of a dirt road, surrounded by forestry an...

Settling out in the wide open spaces was often voluntary social distancing. This was done with layers of oil paint and cold wax on linen. It is ready to hang. :: Painting :: Impres...

Michael Magrin's ( US based) "Bluffs West" is an original, handmade oil painting of a brilliant blue sky contrasted with a vast expanse of clouds. This ...