Portrait of Former Warden and Honorary Fellow Professor Irene Tracey Unveiled

A new portrait has been unveiled of our former Warden and Honorary Fellow Professor Irene Tracey.

The portrait was painted by Emma Wesley, an award‑winning London‑based portrait artist. A self‑taught painter, she studied literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and later trained in painting conservation at the Courtauld Institute before dedicating herself fully to portraiture.

Her work has been exhibited regularly in the BP Portrait Award and with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, where she received the De Laszlo Silver Medal for Portraiture in 2005. She has also been recognised in the Hunting Art Prizes, the Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition, and the Wales Portrait Award. She undertakes commissions ranging from small head studies to large group portraits, with a particular interest in depicting people in their working environments, surrounded by the tools and symbols of their profession.

The new portrait will hang in Hall alongside those of previous Wardens