Dyanne Wilson

Dyanne Wilson is an Ottawa-based fine art and documentary photographer whose work is rooted in a lifelong sensitivity to place — to the way landscapes hold us, shape us, and quietly let us go.

Growing up in a military family, change was not a disruption — it was simply the shape of life. Much of her childhood was spent in the remote expanse of Northern Canada around the 60th parallel, where the landscapes were vast, the communities tight-knit, and the winters harsh and breathtaking in equal measure. Those years left indelible imprints that surface quietly throughout her work: a preference for authenticity over arrangement, and an enduring quest to find tranquility and meaning in the ever-evolving places around her.

That sensibility — attentive, unhurried, drawn to the in-between — shapes everything she photographs. Her images occupy the threshold moments: the space between seasons, between day and night, between the wild and the inhabited. Preferring the found moment over the staged one, Wilson brings a contemplative stillness to her subjects — an invitation to slow down, to look again, and to notice what a place reveals when the world goes quiet.

With a career as an editorial photographer spanning more than two decades, her dis...

Graduate of School of The Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO) Diploma program
Various courses at SPAO
Art History I and II at University of Ottawa

- Solo Exhibition: "Life in the Knife" December 2019 - January 2020 at the Point of View Gallery, Ottawa
- Solo Exhibition: "Life in the Knife" September 2019 at the Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottawa
- Exhibition No. 16: SPAO 2021
Exhibition No. 15: Claustrophobia: SPAO 2020
- Home: SPAO Group Exhibition 2019
- Fragments: July 16 to September 19 - Group Exhibition at Exposure Gallery, Curated in collaboration with Neeko Paluzzi and Michael Tardioli
- Honourable mention in SPAO A+ Juried Exhibition - March 2019
- Honourable mention in Photoplace Gallery Juried Exhibition - November 2019
- YK ARCC / Heritage Art Show November 2016
- Old Town Ramble and Ride July 2016
- CELEBRATION SPAO at Exposure Gallery December 2013
- First Place Digital in SPAO A+ Exhibition 2008