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 Spring Collection 2025
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🔴 "Saltwater Balance"
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🔴 "Heron Pondering the Sea"
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🔴 "Saltwater Vista"
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"Nautical Twilight"
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"Summer Serenity By the Haystack"
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"Haystack In the Distance"
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"My Sweeping Love for Cannon Beach"
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"Peacefully Receding Coastline"
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"Happy Harbor Seals"
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"Seaside Overlook"
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"Gifts of Nature"
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"Looking To the Sea For Answers"
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"A Beloved Friend Took Me To the Sea"
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"Movement of Waves"
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"Love Of the Shoreline"
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"Estuary Reflections"
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"Gentle Beach Day"
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"Crabito I-2025"
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"Rock Crab"
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"Coastal Resonance"
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"As I Relive the Sea"
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"Here In Sight Of the Sea"
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"Natural Wonderments"
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"By the Water I"
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"By the Water II"
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"Saltwater Meditation"
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"Rising Above Saltwater"
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"Saltwater Essence"
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"Listening To the Sea Drift"
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"Gentleman Heron"
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"Moody Sea"
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"Coastal Kingfisher I"
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"Coastal Kingfisher II"
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"Modern Sea"
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"Summer Beach"
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"Washington Coastline"
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"Night Heron"
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"Heron Near the Harper Pier"
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"Crabicus with Stars"
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🔴 "Saltwater Energy, I"
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🔴 "Coastland"
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🔴 "Little Piece of Saltwater Winter"
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🔴 "Love That Salty, Salty Water"
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"Crabicus II, 2023"
Archive of SOLD Paintings
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🔴 "Chosen Family"
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🔴 "-3.2 Low Tide — Everyone's On the Beach"
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🔴 "Dreamy Day by Saltwater"
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🔴 "Coastal Resonance, II-2023"
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🔴 "Romance by the Sea"
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🔴 "We Can Rise Above"
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🔴 "Calm Day by Saltwater"
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🔴 "Secret Cove"
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🔴 "Ocean Therapy"
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🔴 "Confident"
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🔴 "Early Winter Saltwater"
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🔴 "Saltwater Serenity"
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🔴 "Ocean Energy"
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🔴 "Kingfisher Suite II"
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🔴 "Jewels by the Sea"
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🔴 "Impatient to Meet the Waves"
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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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🔴 "Kingfisher IV"
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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"