Artist Includes Grayscale Characters Into His Brilliant and Vivid Murals

Martin Whatson is a Norwegian-born and based artist. While studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo, he discovered stencils and the urban art culture. He had been involved in graffiti for years pursuing the development of street art closely, and in 2004 he started his own artistic production.

On his about page, Whatson adds:

Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style or simply left behind. He looks for inspirations in people, city landscapes, old buildings, graffiti, posters and decaying walls. This interest for decay has helped develop his style, motives and composition and he enjoys creating either unity or conflict between materials, backgrounds, motives and human intervention.

His artistic expression started more political, but has developed into a more subtle expression blending graffiti, stencil art and decay together. Inspired by artist like Jose Parlá and Cy Twombly. His abstract graffiti and stencils are a mix of urban scenes showing the development of a walls lifetime. He use grey tones as a basis but add’s vibrant colours to break the monochrome concrete expression and bring a splash of life to his motives. [source]