Horses racing across hills in the Bighorn Mountains, cowhands returning home after a long day’s work and young cowboys in a winter storm - these are some of the images you will encounter in “Horses and Icons of the West”, an exhibit of photographs by Fine Art Photographer, Robert Diehl. The photographs will be exhibited on the Shively Wall at the Blanchard Community Library in Santa Paula.

The Santa Pauls Society of Arts is hosting Diehl as a featured artist January 22 through February 27, 2014 at the Blanchard Community Library, 
119 N. 8th Street, Santa Paula, California.

The photographs in the exhibit are from a collection made during a week on a three thousand square mile ranch in Wyoming.

Diehl’s photograph, “Shadows on the Wall” from this collection won best of show in the 2013 Art and Photography Show sponsored by the Santa Pauls Society of Arts.

He studied at the West Coast School of Photography and at Professional Photographers of America schools. He has received recognition in juried exhibitions, nationally and in Southern California. His work is in the U.S. Veterans’ Administration Collection as well as corporate and private collections.

He is a member of Buenaventura Art Association, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, and the American Society of Media Photographers.