![]() ![]() The mural is situated in central Stavanger and is visible from both sides of the harbour - making it one of the first artworks visitors see when arriving by boat. Norwegian street and stencil artist Martin Whatson is best known for his colourful take on graffiti motifs, portraying monochrome stencilled figures interacting with extravagant swatches of multicoloured graffiti imagery.įor their collaboration, Chevrier hand-painted the underlying female portrait while Watson contributed his signature, abstract graffiti as the overlaying mask layer. Chevrier's work creates a new kind of hero, contrasting the fantastical heroics and iconography of comic books with the harsher underlying tragedy of oppressed female identity and the exposed superficial illusion it conveys. In her most well-known series, The Cages, she combines hand-painted portraits of women with iconic imagery from the comic book world - only leaving the eyes and mouth unmasked. Martin has shown her work regionally in both New York and SW Florida and has won several awards in juried exhibitions.Sandra Chevrier and Martin Watson created the Junction mural on the occasion of their two-person exhibition at Nuart Gallery in 2017.Ĭanadian artist Sandra Chevrier creates contemporary pop art that merges painting and collage. Martin Watson Brooklyn Street Art All posts tagged: Martin Watson Nuart Day 3 : Picking Up Pace and Sandra Chevrier’s Dramatic Eyes SeptemArtists A fever pitch is possibly overstating the tempo but not by much as Day 3 at Nuart continued to be wet and gray and at times a little windy (not typically good for stencil work by the way). Since that time, she has dedicated herself to making art and works everyday in her studio. Subsequently, Martin opened Gallery 100 in Saratoga Springs, which she successfully ran for eight years until she moved to Naples, Florida in 2011. She taught art at Skidmore in early 1990s and then for 10 years at Green Mountain College in Vermont. Martin graduated from Skidmore College and received an MFA from the State University of New York at Albany. ![]() She shows us the beauty of the nature we might lose in the hope that we to will fall in love and care. Martin creates intricate drawings of intimate moments in the life of her subjects. ![]() Martin has also created a series on elephants and their young. In this exhibit we see our creatures – turtles and birds. Also incorporated into the encaustic paintings are my drawings, paintings, poetry and original transfer prints.” By scraping wax away, my process turns into an excavation, discovering colors, textures and images. I try to preserve what’s underneath while creating something new with each layer. ![]() My encaustic surfaces are labored and develop over time. “My medium of choice is encaustics,… which gives me the flexibility of discovery. She uses encaustics, the once archaic medium that gives her work a softness, juxtaposed with the crisp clear line of her drawings. Martin loves nature and loves to draw - this combination produces work that is an accurate and close-up depiction of creatures in their environment. This focus may have been reignighted by the Gulf Oil Spill of 2010, during which time Martin threw herself into making work that depicted the beauty of the coral reefs, turtles and fish that were and are still in danger. Desiring to bring awareness to their plight. The “fragility of nature,” Martin states is her constant theme. Florida transplant, Deborah Martin fell so in love with her new home’s flora and fauna that when she started to make art again, they became her inspiration. ![]()
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