Carol Pascale's first mural at the age of eight was a chinoiserie mural kit that her parents bought for the dining room. They helped her lay it out on the wall and encouraged her paint to it. Murals of her favorite album cover art soon covered her bedroom walls. She attended as many art classes as she could, at Fleisher Art Memorial in South Philadelphia and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

After graduating from art school with a concentration in painting, she began her career as a scenic artist. A sample of the wide variety of projects she completed include reproducing the theater at Epidaurus on a 40 x 60' backdrop for an American Ballet Theatre production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (her first backdrop), glazing and distressing heavily textured walls for "Carmen" at the Philadelphia Opera, airbrushing realistic clouds onto massive fiberglass domes for an exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, constructing a rainforest for the Franklin Institute Science Museum, and creating numerous displays for the annual Toy Fair in New York City. Every day brought new and interesting challenges requiring resourcefulness and quick solutions to difficult design problems.

In 1993 she was given the task of restoring large amounts of damaged woodgrained plaster in the Media Theatre, built in 1927. Throughout the six-month project she gained valuable experience as she dissected and imitated the methods of the original decorative painters. It was also in the theater, thirty feet up on scaffolding, that she met her husband Dave.

Detouring into a job as a computer illustrator and textile designer, she created hundreds of designs for woven home decor products. She also began learning web design and development, leading to another career change, all the while taking on decorative painting assignments referred to her by Dave's interior painting business. A layoff that seemed devastating at the time eventually allowed her to pursue her desire to paint full time again.

In 2005 she was thrilled to be invited to her first International Salon of Decorative Painters in Philadelphia, and exhibited again the following year in the Netherlands. In September she will participate in the first annual Holy Redeemer Designer Show House, to benefit a program for homeless women and children administered by the hospital where she was born. This October she's excited to be demonstrating at the Meeting of the Masters in Addison, Texas.

Carol and Dave live together in a big garden with a little house attached, and have a small pond with four giant koi. She looks forward to meeting many Faux Forum members in the near future.