Animals • Ocean • Trees • Sky
I paint where I live...or have lived. The forest, desert, shoreline. My themes are spiritually satisfying puzzles of allegorical animals placed in landscapes of subtle conflict and unexpected beauty.
Their spirits emerge or fade, but always leave their mark. Feathers and antlers are not discards, but gifts to the observant wanderer. What could be a more personal
token of remembrance?
DELANA BETTOLI • BIO
Delana Bettoli was born in Somerset County, New Jersey. She studied painting at Boston University, then transferred to Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles to focus on illustration. After settling in Venice, California she illustrated award winning projects for L.A.’s twin industries: music and film.
She has designed album covers and specialized projects for Elektra Records, Atlantic Records, Reprise Records, and the logo for Vapor Records.
Her film work includes pinball art for "Cosmic Venus" featured in the film Tilt (1979), the devilish Peter O'Toole for the poster of the cult classic The Stunt Man (1980), and the inaugural American Film Market poster in 1981, for which she won the prestigious Belding and ADDY (American Advertising Award) Awards.
Bettoli later transitioned into illustrating children’s books, adding vivid artwork to storybooks from HarperCollins, Henry Holt & Co., and Penguin. With an affinity for painting natural settings, animals and young children, her work quickly overlapped into elementary education publications for clients such as Scholastic and Cricket Media.
Her illustration work has been featured in The Society of Illustrators Annual of American Illustration (Volume 35, 1993), AIGA Graphic Design USA (No. 3, 1982), and The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk (by Paul Grushkin, Atrabras, 1987).
Forest, desert, beach... Bettoli has always found herself living within these compelling environments, her art capturing the moods and palette of each. She now creates original paintings in the foothills of the Cascade Range in Oregon – often of women, birds and horses.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Coyote: The Del Gato Series (June 1988)
Mor Design Gallery, Venice, California.
Delgado Bettoli (June 2008)
Lunaria Gallery, Silverton, Oregon.
Peace & Plenty (November 2009)
Lunaria Gallery, Silverton, Oregon.
Sorraias and
Other Horse Latitudes
(June 2010)
Lunaria Gallery, Silverton, Oregon.
Angst to Zen:
The Strange Range of D. Bettoli
– A Retrospective
(September 2012)
Lunaria Gallery, Silverton, Oregon.
Tilt (1979, poster art & pinball art)
Directed by Rudy Durand.
Melvin Simon Productions / Warner Bros.
"Cosmic Venus" and "Astrologic" co-designed by Mike Sehnert.
The Stunt Man (1980, poster art)
Directed by Richard Rush.
Melvin Simon Productions / 20th Century Fox.
Malcolm Bilson: Mozart –
Sonata No. 12 & Sonata No. 13
(1980, album cover art)
Nonesuch Records.
American Film Market
(1981, poster art)
Art direction by
B.D. Fox & Friends Advertising, Inc.
Inaugural poster for the annual event.
• 1982 American Advertising Award
(a.k.a. "Addy" – American Advertising
Federation) – First Place, Poster Design
• 1982 Advertising Club of Los Angeles
Belding Award – First Place
• 1982 American Institute of Graphic Arts
Certificate of Excellence
• 1982 (11th Annual) Hollywood Reporter
Key Art Awards – Honoree
Crosby Stills Nash & Young:
American Dream
(1987, album cover art)
Atlantic Records.
Photography by Henry Diltz.
Art direction by Gary Burden.
Under the Covers (1996, CD-ROM)
Graphix Zone / Triptych Pictures.
An interactive retrospective
of Rock art director Gary Burden
and photographer Henry Diltz.
Bettoli designed the map illustrations
for navigation.
Nature's Footprints series
(1990, children's books)
Text by Q.L. & W.J. Pearce, Silver Press.
Visual learning books: "In the Forest," "In the Barnyard,"
"In the Desert," and "In the African Grasslands."
Aesop's Fables
(1992, children's book)
Text by Susan Cornell Poskanzer, Silver Press.
"The Crow & the Pitcher" showcased in
The Society of Illustrator's 35th Annual of
American Illustration (1993).
Mrs. McMurphy's Pumpkin
(2004, children's book)
Text by Rick Walton, HarperFestival.
This is the Stable
(2006, children's book)
Text by Cynthia Cotten, Henry Holt & Co.
Past Clients include:
Scholastic
Ladybug & Babybug magazines (Cricket Media)
Amsco School Publications
Macmillan English
McDougal Littel & Co. (now Holt McDougal)
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Delana Bettoli: Artist • Illustrator
