![]() ![]() I also love how you can use the same stencil as a base for a piece but completely change the look of it by changing the area you put the graffiti in. The stencils are always the basic idea of a piece, and I normally have a pretty clear thought on to how the piece will look in the end, with the exception of the graffiiti which I can change by using more spray, less spray and more pens, fill more, fill less, monochrome colors or full color scheme. It took me several years for first to learn stencils properly, then working my way through phases of paintings with a more political message through dark to light works and finally adding the colorful graffiti that now can be called my style of work!Īs a big positive its also something I love doing so I get a bit of everything when I’m doing my paintings! When you begin to work a new piece, do you have a clear vision what you are going to do or where to start? How much your works ”live”/change from the original vision? How much you improvise? To me, this meant I could make editions of my work and make all unique and quite different from each other! ![]() Thats when I started incorporating graffiti and graffiti influenced scribbles into my work. One of the things I found when doing just stencil work was how I got bored of it after a while. I still love cutting stencils, but I felt my work lacked some vibrancy and some elements to break with the rigid and graphic look of the stencil. “I get a bit of everything when I’m doing my paintings!” Your works are recognisable, they are vibrant and contrast by both colors and themes, how would you describe your style? How you quickly you found your own ”style” ? Since then I’ve followed both the graffiti scene and later the fast growing stencil and streetart scenes.Īfter my first stencil in 2004 that took over more and more of my time finally resulting in working with a combination of graffiti and stencil full time since 2012. After watching it for years and sketching throughout mid school I tried painting my first piece in the early 2000’s. I’m a 34 year old, Norwegian stencil artist living and working in Oslo, Norway! How did you started to do graffiti and stencils?ĭuring my primary school years I travelled alot with the subway from my school to my friends house and early found an interest in the ever changing graffiti along the subway line. ![]() 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.First the basic introduction – can you tell us who are you, what are you doing, where are you coming from? An aesthetics of beauty and colour is key. 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. 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. 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 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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