![]() ![]() His prints are usually immediately sold, with just a few copies remaining. Whatson enjoys collaborating with street artists and has worked with Snik, Roamcouch, and Pure Evil. ![]() Once he finds his main interest, he decides if he will create order or chaos. He is inspired by everything that surrounds him, or he comes across, from architecture, patterns, and landscapes, to people. The artist first creates the base of his artwork in black and white, constructed of a few layers of hand-cut stencils, and then adds vibrant colours. Through his powerful, colourful images, he draws our attention to them. Interested in finding beauty in all things, especially ugly places, his subjects are often largely overlooked by society. He has worked on paper and canvas as much as on the walls outside. Colourful Street Artįollowing the trend that swept the globe, Martin Whatson slowly adopted his work to be shown in gallery spaces. Whatson draws inspiration from such great masters as Cy Twombly and the brilliant Jose Parla. In his work, he combines the two mediums perfectly, as is seen in his stencil grey monochromatic images decorated with vibrant coloured graffiti. Since 2004 he has been creating art in his signature style that has garnered the attention of the audience and critics alike. Still, once he saw the work by Banksy, he immediately fell in love with stencils. Whatson graduated from the Westerdals School of Communication with a degree in Art and Graphic Design. Like all kids, that did not stop them from leaving their mark all over the streets. However, they had a lot of trouble with the officials as they did not understand or approve of the art. He joined the local graffiti scene in Oslo and was active throughout the 1990s. Martin Whatson was born in 1984 in Norway. Besides mural commissions, the artist has collaborated with several notable fashion brands. Over the years, Martin Whatson has exhibited in numerous cities around the world, including Berlin, Tokyo, London, Paris, Oslo, and New York. His artworks feature animals, famous historical figures, dancers, and abstract graffiti. Best known for his stencil work, prints, sculptures, murals and paintings, which he has been doing since 2004, the artist finds inspiration in old buildings, people, city landscapes, decaying walls, posters and graffiti. In the many festivals and multiple exhibitions he has participated in for about a decade now, Martin Whatson has had the chance to work with other artists such as Roamcouch, Pure Evil or Snik.Throughout his career, Norwegian artist Martin Whatson has found beauty in places conventionally thought of as ugly. ![]() There are not many the prints we can find in galleries as the mayor part of his editions are limited to a few copies, usually hand finished, and because of that a big part of them is already in hands of private collectors. Regarding Martin Watsons' graphic work, we can say that he is a quite prolific artist and his prints are sold out really fast. Nowadays is works combining these urban mediums with works developed on canvas o other materials such as aluminium, metals or wood. We can find his work shown to the public in urban murals in cities of his natal Norway like Stavanger or Oslo but he has also crossed his country frontiers to other places like Paris or Tokyo. He is an emotional artist that seeks to transmit feelings and with a great taste for aesthetics and the beauty of images and colour. His work is not charged with a political or social criticism but he likes to leave a subtle message on which anyone can reflect and draw his or her own conclusions. Martin Whatson is inspired by people, posters or other graffiti and has a weakness for urban spaces in decay and abandoned. This is why his work combines these two elements in a unique way and it is characterized by grey monochromatic images done with stencils and decorates them with graffiti of vibrant colours. In the past three years he has had solo shows in cities like Paris, Tokyo and Copenhagen.Ī street art follower since the nineties decade, it wasn't until he discovered Banksy when he decided to try with the stencil. He produces his own work since 2004 and as a result of it he has participated in numerous exhibitions and has collaborated with other urban artists. During his stay in Oslo, while studying Art and Graphic Design at the Westerdals School of Communication, he started to develop a great interest in the art of graffiti and the stencil world. Martin Whatson is a Norwegian artist born in 1984. ![]()
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