![]() OsloNowhere works closely with Martin and will update social media and our homepage with new works as soon as they arrive. See available prints and multiples, paintings, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. We at OsloNowhere have worked with the street-art movement and artists in this genre for a long time, and are very happy about the attention and success that artists like Martin now is experiencing. View Martin Whatson’s 379 artworks on artnet. His works can be seen to mirror the rise and fall of the streets, as he symbolically. Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aesthetic combining abstract movement with figurative stencilled compositions. Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aestethic combining abstract movement with figurative stencilled compositions. In September 2020, we had the pleasure of presenting Martins work in an exhibition in an old gas station at Frogner in Oslo. Martin Whatson (b.1984) is a Norwegian street artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids. Martin Whatson (f.1984) is a Norwegian street-artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids. True to form, no gray space stays gray for long in Martins presence, wheter immersing entirely or embellishing a detail, the images dissapear beneath expressive, spray-painted strokes of assorted colours and textures. Martin Whatson (b.1984) is a Norwegian street artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids. After following graffiti and its development, he started his own stencil production in the winter of 2004. While studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication (Oslo), he discovered stencils and became passionate about the urban art scene. The ashen tones of the compositions and vacant backgrounds are reminiscent of his alternative canvases, the concrete. ABOUT Born in 1984 in Norway, Martin Whatson works and lives in Oslo. Almost stylised, these minimal figures are constructed of a few layers of hand-cut stencils. Delicate and organic characters feature butterflies, ballerinas and animals all rendered in empty grayscale space. With as many works on walls as on canvas and paper, the relationship between vulnerability and strenght remains constant in each work. His works can be seen to mirror the rise and fall of the streets, as he symbolically recreates the urban environment, then vandalises it to reveal his vibrant transformations. ![]() Martin Whatson (f.1984) is a Norwegian street-artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids.
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