Our Canadian artist Peter McLeish and the ‘Red Sprites’: art meets science at the highest levels

Our Canadian artist Peter McLeish and the ‘Red Sprites’: art meets science at the highest levels About ‘Lightning`s Angels’: Lightning’s Angels is a six-minute video that combines digitally enhanced oil paintings of a Red Sprite (a large-scale electric discharge that occurs high above thunderstorm clouds) in various states of transformation, accompanied by the song MISERERE from the CD STATE OF GRACE by Paul Schwartz featuring the Joyful Company of Singers. The images displayed in McLeish’s video are of a Red Sprite as seen from up above or from a high altitude aircraft and/or Space Shuttle. This video was created with the cooperation and assistance from American scientist Dr. Walter A. Lyons: FMA Research Inc.- Sky-Fire Productions (Colorado, United States) and scientist Dr. Colin Price from the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel)/NASA Space Shuttle Columbia’s MEIDEX mission. McLeish holds a BA Fine Arts f