 The artist also helped encourage fellow Canadian artist Tom Thomson, who was praised for his landscape paintings.In 1913 during her trip in Paris, her instructors at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière were Lucien Simon and Émile-René Ménard.But her real inspiration was the artist Frédéric Fiebig and due to him, she began to work in a style new to her that involved using the palette knife and a heavier application of paint.