Kelly Mattimoe is a Cleveland-based artist and designer. As a professional designer, under the brand, “My Bed is a Boat,” she helps organizations and businesses turn ideas into visuals. She specializes in illustration for training and development, logo design and educating clients on how to maintain their own brand identity as their business grows.
In her fine art practice, Mattimoe explores concepts of manufactured environments, safety, home, and the fallacies therein through mixed media.
My bed is like a little boat; | Nurse helps me in when I embark; | She girds me in my sailor's coat | and starts me in the dark. | At night I go on board and say | Good-night to all my friends on shore; | I shut my eyes and sail away | And see and hear no more. | And sometimes things to bed I take, | As prudent sailors have to do; | Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake, | Perhaps a toy or two. | All night across the dark we steer; | But when the day returns at last, | Safe in my room beside the pier, | I find my vessel fast.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Children’s Garden of Verses