Artist of the Month - Daniel Wheeler

This month the Museum is featuring, primarily black and white photographic prints by Daniel Wheeler on the art wall.

Dan started taking photos at the age of sixteen, when he started backpacking and climbing. At that time, his photos centered on the environment he encountered while climbing. Now, over thirty years later, his photography has changed to capturing the sheer beauty of the areas that he encounters.

Dan is actively involved with Peace of ART and is their current president. The Museum thanks Peace of ART for sponsoring this art wall and Rhonda Warren of the art club for organizing the artists featured every month.

If you go further into the Museum, you will also find one of Dan's landscapes in our current exhibit "A Sense of the Land and its People: A Private Collection" featuring the Plains and Northwest Coast First Nations artifacts collected by Dr. David Welch. Dan was kind enough to donate the use of a Plains landscape in this exhibit to help highlight the environment in which the Plains First Nations people have lived.

The Museum is open Monday through Saturday, from 10 am to 5 pm. Please stop by to see Dan's photographic prints, focusing on the elements found on Shaftesbury Trail in Peace River.

Daniel Wheeler Featured Artist

Dan Wheeler has been pursuing his passion for capturing shape, form and light textures through the lens of a digital camera for over thirty years. The black and white works on exhibit for the month of November portray the soft shapes of a lily, a snow dusted dove of an historic sculpture at Dunvegan, the lines of aspen trees draped by prayer cloths in the Kootenai and the shadows of a window at the historic St.Augustine Church.
Dan likes to draw the viewer's eyes to the details his camera finds once he has explored the object or scene as a whole. His love of hiking and climbing offers an abundance of opportunities to slow down and really see his surroundings. Dan produces his own photographs and has recently experimented with sugar cane paper, a renewable resource, as a medium. This exhibit will be up for the month of November and there is no fee to view.