This series of paintings uses clothing as a central metaphor for the devices that artists and eccentrics use to protect their inner selves from an often critical and unforgiving public.  Visual artists, performers, and poets are among the subjects portrayed in this series.  Two previous solo exhibitions also employed clothing as a metaphor.  In “The Hundred Year Promise”, a series of ten linked paintings, wedding gowns became a metaphor for tradition which can hinder our personal growth by trapping us in old values and behaviour.  The “Widow’s Weeds” series used the traditional dark and somber attire of the widow to suggest the disillusion of unmet expectations.