from your code example I meant something more like this:
@anvil.server.callable
def task1(path):
ret = [] # empty array for storing images
for i in os.listdir(path):
img = tf.keras.preprocessing.image.load_img(path+'\\' +i, target_size=(200,200))
bs = io.BytesIO()
ret.append({'image' : anvil.BlobMedia('image/jpeg', bs)})
return ret