Visual expression has been a driving force for Clare since her undergraduate years in the Arts Department at Northern Illinois University. She came to Colorado from Chicago with an artistic preoccupation but a real occupation, equipped with her Master's in Social Work from the University of Denver. Once her job had been completed in clinical social work, she returned to art. Clare's friends and family say they haven't seen someone transform themselves into a new role so completely as they have seen the transformation in her from social worker to artist, but it was always there.