McGillivray traveled across Canada for inspiration.
She painted her environment using bold colours and the contour of shapes.
McGillivray's artistic style stressed the abstract qualities of lines, shapes and forms that was expressed in her work through a large amount of paint applied using the palette knife in her oil paintings.
Working outdoors, the painter developed a powerful style that defined her career.

Her inspiration derived from various environments including her hometown of Whitby, and her travel to the Gatineau area, as well as to Eastern Canada, including Newfoundland, and to Trinidad, Jamaica, Bahama Islands in the West Indies, Alaska, Eastern United States, Western Canada, Venice, Italy and the Swiss Alps.
She worked in many media which included watercolour, pastel and oil.
During her trip to Europe, she had encountered newly forming art styles of Symbolism and Post Impressionism that impacted and influenced her art.
Her artwork is expressed mainly with vivid colours of contouring shapes and dabs of paint that simplifies the form of an object.
McGillivray traveled across Canada for inspiration. She painted her environment using bold colours and the contour of shapes. McGillivray's artistic style stressed the abstract qualities of lines, shapes and forms that was expressed in her work through a large amount of paint applied using the palette knife in her oil paintings. Working outdoors, the painter developed a powerful style that defined her career.
Her inspiration derived from various environments including her hometown of Whitby, and her travel to the Gatineau area, as well as to Eastern Canada, including Newfoundland, and to Trinidad, Jamaica, Bahama Islands in the West Indies, Alaska, Eastern United States, Western Canada, Venice, Italy and the Swiss Alps. She worked in many media which included watercolour, pastel and oil. During her trip to Europe, she had encountered newly forming art styles of Symbolism and Post Impressionism that impacted and influenced her art. Her artwork is expressed mainly with vivid colours of contouring shapes and dabs of paint that simplifies the form of an object.
Florence Helena McGillivray