Martin Watson

Martin Watson

Martin Watson, born in 1984, is a young Norwegian artist who bases his oeuvre on stencil art. He studied art and graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo where he discovered stencil art and the urban art scene.

After tracing graffiti and its development, he started his own stencil production about 11 years ago in the winter of 2004. Inspired by artists like José Parla and Cy Twombly, his art becomes a mixture of graffiti and stencil.

He gets inspired by people, city landscapes, old buildings, graffiti and derelict walls. His interest in decay helped to develop his style, motives and composition. 

Martin Watson enjoys creating a unity of contrasts between materials, backgrounds, motives and human intervention. He uses grey tones as a basis but he adds vibrant colours to break the monochrome concrete expression and bring a splash of life to his motives. 

Nowadays he has had several shows in metropolises all over the world, like Paris, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles and New York.

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