 Rather, her paintings focused on picturesque subjects, such as Mount Royal and the old Martello Towers of Quebec.Anne Savage had claimed that Collyer's work had a "freshness and vitality" that convey a lively sensitivity to both the rural and urban environments.Nora Collyer composed her images carefully, creating an interplay between the diagonals of the flowering trees, the triangular messes of land, and the horizontal bands of blue rivers, brown trees and mauve-blue hills.