“Groupe Beaver Hall Exposition Levée de Fonds”, Université Bishop’s, Campus Knowlton and Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, April 2007, no. 31
The Beaver Hall group of modernist painters had a distinctive style rooted in the life and culture of Montreal and Quebec. As a member of the group, Collyer expressed her love of the region in her dynamic works. Growing up in Montreal with English Protestant parents, the artist was imbued with a strong sense of community and gravitated towards depicting village landscapes and tokens of rural communities.
With a richly composed foreground and a distant village depicted by the shore, “Summer Landscape” is executed with bold colour and rhythmic form. The eye moves fluidly over the composition, seamlessly moving from each element and inciting a feeling of smooth calm whilst overlooking the vista.
