![]() Today, Whatson’s work can be seen in murals across the globe, from Stavanger and Oslo, to Paris and Tokyo, as well as in galleries and private exhibitions, in the form of originals and hand finished limited editions on aluminium, wood, and paper. 81.5 x 58 Inches Medium: Mixed Media Art on Canvas Edition: Original Year: 2021 Notes: Hand Signed, Dated, Titled, and. Born in 1984, he studied art and graphic design at the school of communications in Westerdals, Oslo. ![]() For Sale on 1stDibs - Eternal Reflection (Green), Brass by Martin. Norway 1984 New & remarkable Artists Presentation Young Norwegian Martin Whatson is an unmissable figure in the contemporary street art scene. Listen to Directors Notes, a STRATFESTHOME original podcast, with Director Antoni Cimolino for a pre-show. An aesthetics of beauty and colour is key. Eternal Reflection (Green), Brass by Martin Whatson. Please note that all run times are approximate. This interest for decay has helped develop his style. Apolitical, his works are instead concerned with a subtle messages and transmissions of feeling: each, ambiguous piece is designed to evoke emotion in its viewer, and each viewer takes their own journey and makes their own conclusions. He looks for inspirations in people, city landscapes, old buildings, graffiti, posters and decaying walls. Taking inspiration from the people and places around him, Whatson is drawn to metropolitan spaces, fuelled by decaying architectural sites, peeling posters, and crumbling graffiti walls, signed by anonymous figures. Inspired by the work of Banksy, Whatson took up his stencils and spray paints and began to develop his own, urban aesthetic: creating monochromatic images from simple stencils, Whatson then fills his works with bright lashings of colourful spray paint. His works can be seen to mirror the rise and fall of the streets, as he. Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aestethic combining abstract movement with figurative stencilled compositions. ![]() Whatson studied Art and Graphic Design at the Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo, where, alongside learning the tricks and techniques of art practice, he fostered a keen interest in the emergent graffiti art movement of the 1990s. Martin Whatson (f.1984) is a Norwegian street-artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids. Martin Watson is a Norwegian-born artist, whose graphic, street style has been evolving on the walls and shutters of cities around the world over nearly two decades. ![]()
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