His latest solo show in Tokyo, Love Tour, sold out pre and during the opening night. Since his artistic debut in 2006, he has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Still, his expression is very much masculine, filled with in your face-statements that represents a young and vigorous group of upcoming artists. He has a cheerful, very much recognizable and almost feminine touch butterflies, doves and hearts in soft, nonetheless vibrant, colours. His stencils are a mix of urban scenes with a poetic, hippyish make peace not war-message. DISTRICT 13 ART FAIR January, Paris, France. His artistic expression started off more political, inspired by DOLK and Banksy, but has developed into a more subtle expression. BOOK LAUNCH INSIDEOUTSIDER February, Oslo, Norway. This interest for decay has helped develop his style, motives and composition and he enjoys creating either unity or conflict between materials and motives a wrinkled old lady on a shiny plate of aluminum. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt. He looks for inspirations in city landscapes and old soon to be demolished buildings. Martin Whatson is continuously urged to search for beauty in what is commonly recognized as ugly, out of style, or left behind. View Tiger (2017) By Whatson Martin screen print in colours on 300gsm Somerset paper 58 x 108 cm Signed Edition. Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style or simply left behind. In 2004 he started his own artistic production. He had been interested in Graffiti for years, following the development within street art closely. While studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, Oslo, he discovered stencils and the urban art scene. 1984) is a Norwegian born and based stencil artist.
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