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Canadian Uniquely Artist Deborah Colvin (’77) creates special edition Canada Day beer packaging for Scotland’s Innis & Gunn 00 18 / Summer Fall 2011 2011 / RECORD / RECORD
featuRe stORy by Melissa Lombard Earlier this year, Scotland’s Innis & Gunn approached the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) with the proposal for members to create an image representing Canada, to appear on their special edition Canada Day beer. Since 2009 Innis & Gunn has produced this special beer for Canadians as a thank you for appreciating their brew. Artist Deborah Colvin decided to try her hand at designing packaging artwork for the first time. Out of 50 entries from the SCA, Colvin’s design was unanimously chosen by the brewery for her vision of Canada. “I had to think about how Canada looked to me and what it might look like to young Canadians. How does one visually represent something as vast as one’s nation?” says Colvin. Her design consists of three components that she believes best represent the country — hockey, maps, and birch bark. She says she started thinking about her childhood, growing up in the Toronto area, when her cousins would come over to play hockey on their backyard rink and street hockey in the warmer weather. “Hockey is very much part of the psyche of Canadians,” she says. Drawing and colouring maps of Canada she felt was also a very Canadian pursuit. “I remember doing this as a kid and I loved it,” says Colvin. The shape of the map also references the rugged geography and visually serves as a goal for the three hockey players. The birch bark she says embodies our connection with nature and makes reference to the indigenous people. ’’ “My hope for this piece is that it speaks to Canadians and informs non-Canadians of our spirit,” she says. Colvin also had a deep family connection to this project. Her late father and grandparents were born in Scotland. She says she carried their memory with her through the creative journey. does one visually represent something as vast as one’s nation? ‘‘How “This was really special for me.” Colvin began drawing as a child and loved getting lost in book illustrations. She spent her summers at Martha’s vineyard as a teenager and during her last summer there she took life-drawing classes at an oceanfront gallery. She was strongly encouraged by artists and teachers to pursue an art education and career. She describes her artistic style as abstracted human forms in mixed media, which are often used as landscape or placed in cosmic settings. “My work is an inquiry into the emotions of being human and our connections to the world we live in and those around us,” she says. Colvin is currently working on a series of reliefs made from plaster castings of disposable plastic items. The concept is “what are we going to leave behind for archeologists to discover in the future.” To view more of Colvin’s art, visit www.deborahcolvin.com / 19
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