Martin Whatson • Tiger Print, by oxfordwelshchap on Nov 20, 2017 10:58:15 GMT 1,

Nov 20, 2017 8:33:37 GMT 1 Neate Michael said:

For those not up to speed, Whatson is an ex-forum member who has been ripping off other artists his whole career.
When I first joined here he was doing Shepherd Fairey style rip offs on Vinyl. Super cheap if I recall. But it wasn’t successful.
Then he came back doing Logan Hick style art and was called out by the man himself on here. So he went quiet for a while....
Next we heard of him he was selling the spaceman with a butterfly print, which whilst not original was a forum print. He totally rinsed it, and GP picked it up too, resulting in even more prints and a few pissed off forum members.
A few uninspiring prints later he hit upon the tagging style, again utterly derivative and even though his stencils were called out and shown to be poor copies they sold like hot cakes. Five years later he’s still rinsing you all for this style.
As Banksy said, I can’t believe you morons buy thiss**t, but fair play to him and GP, laughing all the way to the bank.

Although I don't own MW and it's not my thing, at least he's being creative in his own way. Most of the stuff that pops up has been 'ripped off' someone else by almost every artist. Usually when someone has such a negative view about something there is a back story. What's the deal? Did you pay over the odds for a spaceman print?

Nov 20, 2017 8:33:37 GMT 1 Neate Michael said:

For those not up to speed, Whatson is an ex-forum member who has been ripping off other artists his whole career.
When I first joined here he was doing Shepherd Fairey style rip offs on Vinyl. Super cheap if I recall. But it wasn’t successful.
Then he came back doing Logan Hick style art and was called out by the man himself on here. So he went quiet for a while....
Next we heard of him he was selling the spaceman with a butterfly print, which whilst not original was a forum print. He totally rinsed it, and GP picked it up too, resulting in even more prints and a few pissed off forum members.
A few uninspiring prints later he hit upon the tagging style, again utterly derivative and even though his stencils were called out and shown to be poor copies they sold like hot cakes. Five years later he’s still rinsing you all for this style.
As Banksy said, I can’t believe you morons buy thiss**t, but fair play to him and GP, laughing all the way to the bank.

Although I don't own MW and it's not my thing, at least he's being creative in his own way. Most of the stuff that pops up has been 'ripped off' someone else by almost every artist. Usually when someone has such a negative view about something there is a back story. What's the deal? Did you pay over the odds for a spaceman print?