Matakana Collection
Created by Artist Christina McGrath
Coastal Grit & Wild Light — The Matakana Collection
The Matakana Collection is a love letter to the rugged beauty and quiet magic of New Zealand’s east coast. Each piece is infused with the raw textures of wind and tide, the shifting dance of light on water, and the grounded strength of the land. Inspired by the meeting points where ocean swells kiss rocky headlands, and where soft dawns break over resilient shorelines, this body of work captures both the grit that shapes us and the light that calls us forward.
Through layered pigments, fluid movement, and organic forms, Christina McGrath explores the push and pull between power and surrender — the same rhythm she finds in her life as an ocean-loving athlete and high-performance coach. The works invite you to pause, breathe, and feel the deep connection between nature’s elements and your own inner landscape.
This exhibition celebrates the coastal spirit: bold yet tender, weathered yet luminous. It’s for those who have stood with salt spray on their skin, who have watched sunlight shatter on the sea, and who know that beauty often lives in the spaces where grit meets grace.
Resin on wood
75x100 cms
$2800
Mountain Meets the Sea is a meeting of forces — the grounded stillness of alpine peaks and the untamed rush of ocean swells. Veins of white carve across rich blues and teals, like ridgelines melting into surf breaks. This work is a love letter to contrasts — stillness and motion, gravity and flow, solitude and connection. It’s the space where the wild edges of land lean into the endless horizon, and opposites find harmony
Mountain Meets The Sea
Mountain Meets The Sea | Poem
The sea writes in curves,
the mountain answers in lines.
Emerald breath,
navy pulse,
white sands whispered in resin light.
Here, the rhythm is not yours alone —
you tune to it,
you ride it,
you become it.
A moment caught,
a tide held still,
until you bring it back to life.
Words by: Christina McGrath
Resin on Canvas
45 cm x 30 cm
$750
Unhinged is a raw, intimate portal into the wild edges of love, longing, and becoming. Encased beneath layers of deep ocean blues and flowing white script lies a handwritten poem — a confession, a declaration, a surrender. The word love swirls through the surface like a whispered current, both grounding and electrifying.
This piece is about the daring act of revealing your soul — unguarded, unedited, and unhinged. A visceral moment of connection with the self, with another, or with the unknown, where presence meets possibility and truth spills forward like a wave that cannot be held back.
An invitation to feel. To believe. To be.
Unhinged
Resin on Canvas
50 cm x 150 cm
$2800
Lines of Love is a visceral expression of unity in motion — where the raw beauty of snow lines meets the deep rhythm of the sea. Fluid yet powerful, this piece captures the energetic balance of feminine and masculine forces in motion.
It speaks in curves and currents, evoking the feeling of carving through life with presence and passion.
A dance, a charge, a perspective shift — Lines of Love is an ode to movement, connection, and the soulful path we ride
Lines of Love
Resin on Round Wood Panel
80 cm diameter
$1500
She’s wild as a wave and soft as a midnight kiss — this piece holds the energy of untamed love and star-lit longing.
Deep ocean blues crash into cosmic whites, swirling like soulmates meeting in the surf. Inspired by moonlit rides, whispered country songs, and the kind of love that pulls like a tide, She Moves Like the Sea is a visual heartbeat — fierce, fluid, and full of feeling.
For the wild ones, the dreamers, the lovers who find freedom in surrender.
She Moves Like the Sea
Resin on Canvas
50 cm x 160 cm
$2800
The Line We Ride is a meeting point — where sea meets snow, soul meets sky, and the life we live meets the one we’re still becoming. A sweeping curve of turquoise, jade, and salt white carves through the canvas like a backcountry trail or the perfect wave.
It speaks to those who crave both peace and motion, who know that the adventure is as much internal as it is external.
This piece is about walking your edge — the place where wild meets grounded, where who you are touches who you’re here to be.
The Line We Ride
Resin on Canvas
75 cm x 100 cm
$2800
Soul Tides captures the ever-changing, deeply felt rhythm of our inner world — mirroring the ocean’s push and pull.
It’s about surrendering to the currents within: the moments of stillness, the powerful swells, the quiet knowing. Blues and sea greens swirl like intuition, while silver-white crests whisper of clarity and truth.
This piece is for the ones who feel deeply, who evolve like water — those moved not by the surface, but by the soul tides that guide them home.
Soul Tides
Resin on Wood
50 x 140 cm
$2800
This elongated canvas channels the liquid energy of the east coast — the rolling blues of Omaha, the white whispers of breaking surf, and the deep aquas that hide beneath the swell. The lines mirror the way a snowboard carves down untouched powder or a surfer traces a perfect wall. It’s movement distilled into stillness — a frozen flow. Flow State invites you to lean in, follow the line, and feel the same rhythm that drives both the ocean and the artist.
The horizon bends,
a ribbon of light
folding into deep.
White edges bite the blue,
curling,
spilling,
becoming.
One long breath,
from mountain spine
to ocean’s open palm.
Here is the line you ride —
the one that takes you home.
Flow State
Resin Pour on Skate Deck (Art Only)
Standard Deck
$750
Edge of Stillness is where motion meets meaning — a piece poured with the rhythm of emerald hills and salt-laced skies. Resin flows like ridgelines and cloud fronts, evoking a landscape in motion, held mid-breath.
Though the deck stands still, it holds the spirit of the ride — wild and intentional, quiet and strong.
Inspired by the meeting point of adventure and peace, this work reflects the way we grow: not always by moving faster, but by learning when to pause, feel, and return to who we are becoming.
Edge of Stillness
Matakana Collection
Created by Artist Christina McGrath