Other than that I’m basically self taught. And as a child my father drew me cars and Disney cartoons. I still love watching, and painting Graffiti, but trying to incorporate it more and more into my stencil art now.īesides the basic high school art education, I’ve studied graphic design. I’ve been following the graffiti and street art scene since the mid 90’s, after discovering Banksy (of course) and realizing I wasn’t good enough painting graffiti pieces, so I decided to try stencils.
#Martin whatson art full#
I’m a 30 year old Norwegian stencil artist. After doing graffiti for many years I got into stencils and been working with the medium for about 10 years now, and full time for the last 2-3 years. Martin was nice enough to fit us in his busy schedule for a Q and A.Ĭould you tell us a little about yourself? Since his artistic debut in 2006, he has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. He enjoys creating either unity or conflict between materials and motives. His interest for decay has helped develop his style and composition. He looks for inspirations in city landscapes and old soon to be demolished buildings. Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style or simply left behind.
After following the development in the street art scene closely, he started his own artistic production in 2004.
He discovered stencils and the urban art scene while studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, in Oslo.