Wendy Stone

Artist making photographs

Author: Wendy

  • Divinity School, Oxford

    Divinity School, Oxford

    For over 500 years these shadows have appeared at the same time on the same day each year. and few people are around early on a summer morning to see them.
    I enjoy the sense of history as well as the dramatic monochrome patterns created by Oxford’s stone buildings. Capturing them with a large format camera is always a welcome adventure.

    (There is a picture on Instagram of setting up to make this photograph)

    • Silver chemistry handmade darkroom print on Ilford photographic paper
      Darkroom enlargement from a 1/4 plate large format film negative
    •  220x290mm, mounted to 400x50mm
    • Available from Made in Oxford
  • Early morning at Abingdon weir

    Early morning at Abingdon weir

    A black and white photograph in a frame hung on wall in a peaceful paler-coloured interior

    The river Thames does not flow naturally, it is managed from Lechlade down to the estuary east of London.
    These mechanisms to regulate the water fascinate me; regular patterns and rigid forms in contrast to the water and the wooded riverbanks. Undisturbed, peaceful glimpses like this one are rare and precious in the early morning, as weirs are usually busy with boats and powerful flumes of water.

    • Silver chemistry handmade darkroom print
      Selenium toned on archival fibre-based photographic paper
      Darkroom enlargement from a medium format film negative
    • 255x255mm mounted to 400x500mm
    • In the studio and
  • Clear skies over Wallingford

    Clear skies over Wallingford

    The sky often has a principal role in my photographs, with landscape to ground us in the image. The river Thames reflects big skies and leaves me full of wonder at the scene before as I come around the bend into Wallingford

    • Silver chemistry handmade darkroom print.
      Selenium toned on archival fibre-based photographic paper.
      Print from a medium format negative
    • 255x255mm mounted to 400x500mmz
    • May 2023
    • Sold