Mattie Bowden works by day as a set dresser and model maker for stop-motion animation studios. She has worked on films including Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio and Laika's Boxtrolls, Kubo and Missing Link.
At most other times she can be found at her home studio creating original jewelry designs and drawing vast seascapes, environments and creatures.
Born and raised on the coast of Maine, she attended Lewis and Clark College in Portland and University of Maine at Farmington, graduating in 2007 with a BFA in Creative Writing: Fiction.
She currently lives works in Portland, Or.