Carmichael’s love of the La Cloche Hills of Northern Ontario is well known. The artist himself states the area was his favourite painting place. Carmichael loved to climb and paint from high places, and La Cloche offered many such perspectives. There, he found sketching spots with boundless, panoramic views of hills and lakes flooded with light from enormous skies. Many of the vistas seen repeatedly in Carmichael’s La Cloche work are those scenes overlooking Georgian Bay. The range of hills on the south sides of Frood, Cranberry, Grace and Nellie Lakes provided suitable vantage points from which to paint the distinctive north shore of Georgian Bay. What attracted Carmichael most was the dotted visual effect of intersecting small islands and water, which created a repetitive pattern of form and design.