Carol Bevilacqua ~ D U R O - D E S I G N

Carol has been doing graphic design and illustration/painting for over 25 years, she has been working 20 of them as a Senior Artist in the Publication Department at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley. At this science museum she has done wonderful design/ illustration for books, magazines, brochures, ads, posters, signage, T-shirts, buttons, and the web.

She has worked for the Exploratorium, 10 Speed Press, and various publications that have been bought, sold, and are probably now defunct.

Her true loves are gardening and art.

"I'm obsessed with gardening. I think I can find as many plants as I can fonts. Plants are like typefaces—there are unlimited possibilities—like fonts are a texture pallet, plants are a color pallet. Also shape, size, contrast—I could go on and on. And smells! I wish fonts could have smells! Scratch and sniff fonts! I'd love it."

"Currently I'm working on tiles and mosaics—outdoor landscape art, I finished a Byzantine flower power saint stone, she is a rock that rolls. I am learning how to sculpt with cement, making forms that are weightless inside, take a look at the Queen's Crown and the Looney Tunes Cactus base. and the Dressforms mosaic. That's the type of artwork I'd like to have in my dream store. I would love to have a store that I could sell campy one-of-a-kind items for thousands of dollars that people would flock to. I'd call it Atrocities Unlimited, only in French."

Carol is incorporating her past design/painting knowledge to clay.

Using clay as 'a painted surface,' she is using majolica paints, stamping, pressing found objects into clay, using vintage molds, and molding 3-D shapes to make small tiles that can be incorporated into a mosaic piece.

She finished a large Boomerang outdoor mosaic wall installation for architect Jon Alff in Berkeley, CA. Flowers are finally put on! Check out the flower Mural for the Secret Gardens of the East Bay Tour, also for Jon. She also finished a grand birdbath for Barbara Anderson Galleries, also in Berkeley. Carol recently finished the Starry-Sky fireplace, inspired by old tombstone shapes, reliquary urns, and the vaulted ceiling of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia.

She hopes to transfer her digitally painted collage art files onto clay and fuse these mediums together—graphic design/illustration and the painted clay surface.