He's an internationally renowned artist, whose work is at the whim of the tides.

Andres Amador creates huge scale artworks on a beach with rakes only for it to be obliterated by the incoming tide.

Mount Main Beach will transform into a work of art, similar to the beach above.

Now the artist is headed to Tauranga.

It seems there is a production house shooting New Zealand from the sky and it's interested in Andreas doing an artwork on one of the beaches it's filming.

Mount Main Beach is one of the beaches and depending on tides, days, weather and other commitments, Amador will transform the beach into a canvas, an ephemeral or short-lived canvas, either this Friday or Saturday.

San Franciscan Andres Amador, a sand artist for 13 years, has already created a giant ta moko, or tattoo, on Northland's Piapia Beach. It attracted national media attention and was a hit on social media.

He may organise 'a memorial piece.” It's self-explanatory and will commemorate a local person. It involves a lot of people working on an integrated work. 'We work on individual pieces that all come together as a whole,” says Andreas.

He usually opts for a field of flowers for that concept.

'It's quite cathartic creating art in the midst of grief. Especially art intended to wash away.”