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Savage's
instinctive attraction to nature and to landscape painting, which
began with her earliest Art Nouveau inspired paintings of countryside
around Lake Wonish, was strengthened
by her contact with other Canadian landscape painters.
Her paintings of Canada's West-Coast,
Métis and Laurentian
regions of Québec, as well as her representations of
rural scenes, were what the Group of Seven called "an art
inspired by the country".
Her
later work moved away from the broad landscape to specific studies
of sunflowers, still-lifes
or the view from a window.
During this period, Anne Savage was clearly putting aside symbolic
landscapes and experimenting with abstraction and different painting
techniques.
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