Mathie, Christopher
Written By Benna Gottfried
About the artist
Christopher Mathie’s mixed media paintings are filled with energetic movement, fluid emotion, and bold confident brushwork. A foremost regional painter, Mathie is known for his dynamic abstractions that reference coastal landscapes. His warm style is a result of trusting personal artistic mark making, allowing pure color, texture, line and form to be distilled into essential elements. In his process, Mathie builds up layer upon layer of textural paint achieving complicated coloration and lively inviting surfaces in his moody and spirited abstractions. Mathie's singular style conveys a realm that resonates somewhere between reality and imagination.
New Work — Mathie Winter Collection 2024
Debuts during the Stormy Weather Arts Festival, Nov 1—3.
Artist in attendance during festival.
(Paintings available in the gallery starting October 17th)
*Show continues through Winter.
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"Down the Beach"
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"Love That Salty, Salty Water"
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"Ocean Overlook"
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🔴 "Coastland"
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"Lost In Thought By the Sea"
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"Contemplative Sea"
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"Crabicus with Stars"
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"Crabicus, I-2024"
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"Saltwater Energy, I"
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"Saltwater Energy, II"
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"Saltwater Energy, III"
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"Hiking with My Honey By the Saltwater"
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"Washington Coastline"
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"Sometimes We Struggle — Yet Every Breath Offers Resolution"
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"Saltwater Chorus"
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"Summer Beach"
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"Little Piece of Saltwater Winter"
Mathie Spring Collection 2024
Seascapes and paintings focused on figuration, including humans, animals & birds as subjects.
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🔴 "Chosen Family"
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🔴 "Dreamy Day by Saltwater"
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"Moody Day by Saltwater"
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"Saltwater Vista"
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"Soft Coastal Winds"
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🔴 "Early Winter Saltwater"
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"Restful Escape"
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🔴 "Romance by the Sea"
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🔴 "-3.2 Low Tide — Everyone's On the Beach"
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"The Sea and A Lifetime of Love"
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"Saltwater Resonance, II"
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"Breathe In Saltwater Air"
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🔴 "Coastal Resonance, II-2023"
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🔴 "We Can Rise Above"
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🔴 "Secret Cove"
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"Saltwater's Release"
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"A Beach Discovered"
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"Breathe In the Peaceful Silence"
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🔴 "Ocean Therapy"
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🔴 "Calm Day by Saltwater"
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"Lyrical Poem for the Sea"
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"Nicely Paired"
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🔴 "Confident"
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"By Genevieve's Pond"
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🔴 "Saltwater Serenity"
Recent and available work
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🔴 "Jewels by the Sea"
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"Golden Heron Flight"
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"Elk"
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🔴 "Impatient to Meet the Waves"
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"Ocean Energy"
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"Salty Shore"
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🔴 "Walloping Sea Splash"
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🔴 "Crabicus On the Move"
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🔴 "Saltwater Resonance"
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🔴 "Saltwater Push"
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"Moody Sea"
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"My Raven Loves You"
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🔴 "Kingfisher IV"
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"Kingfisher Suite II"
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"Sea Waves"
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"Crabicus, II 2023"
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"Heron Catching the Wind"
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"Saltwater Study"
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🔴 "Grace"
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🔴 "Tiny Slice of Sea"
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🔴 "Intertidal Zone"
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🔴 "Find the Horizon - Let Go"
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🔴 "Saltwater Contentment"
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🔴 "Saltwater Overlook"
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🔴 "Saltwater Dream"
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🔴 "Grateful to be Near Saltwater"
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🔴 "Coastal Meditation I-2023"
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🔴 "Flight of the Kingfisher"
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🔴 "Thrive x 3"
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🔴 "Spindrift"
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🔴 "Sumi-e Heron"
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🔴 "I am a Sea Turtle"
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🔴 "Dreaming of Saltwater"
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🔴 "Fervor for Sailing"
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🔴 "Saltwater Symphony"
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🔴 "Sea Sketch"
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🔴 "Lifted by Light"
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🔴 "Gentle Day by the Heron Pond"
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🔴 "Gliding In"
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🔴 "Offshore"
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🔴 "Near the Rock"
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🔴 "Fluke"
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🔴 "Easy Breezy"
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🔴 "Calm Love Will Find You"
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🔴 "Grandfather Tree"
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🔴 "Being the Great Blue"
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🔴 "Saltwater Crescendo"
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🔴 "Kingfisher Couple"
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🔴 "Heronito"
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🔴 "Exploring the Saltwater Splash"
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🔴 "Autumnal Saltwater"
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🔴 "High Bank"
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🔴 "Offering of Knowledge & Safe-Keeping, II"
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🔴 "Impulse"
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🔴 "I Go to the Sea to Begin Again"
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🔴 "Ebb and Flow"
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🔴 "Trees Observing Saltwater"
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🔴 "Coastal Resonance"
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🔴 "Breaching Orca"
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🔴 "The Waves Keep Singing"
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🔴 "Crabito"
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🔴 "Day Hike by Saltwater"
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🔴 "Living & Loving by Saltwater"
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🔴 "Accepting the Path You Were Meant To Follow"
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🔴 "By the Water X"
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🔴 "Itsy & Bitsy"
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🔴 "Kingfisher, III
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🔴 "Gentle Day by Salt Water"
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🔴 "Saltwater Sketch I"
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🔴 "Hiking by Saltwater with My Honey"
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🔴 "Crabicus, VI"
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🔴 "Coastal Meditation"
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🔴 "Lyrical Poem for the Ocean"
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🔴 "Evening by Saltwater"
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🔴 "At Peace"
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🔴 "Fall Saltwater"
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🔴 "Revitalized by the Sea"
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🔴 "Converging Orcas"
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🔴 "Tranquil Harbor"
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🔴 "Winter Coastline"
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🔴 "Saltwater Shore"