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Oct 29
1 min

The Art Trail which led to my studio

Thank you for making this such a successful Noosa Open Studio in 2020. Out of the disarray that was COVID, we still managed to create a f...

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Grab yourself a unique piece of Noosa this Saturday

Saren Dobkins

Sep 30
1 min

Grab yourself a unique piece of Noosa this Saturday

A special event has been created by the Noosa Open Studio Art Trail and you are invited to participate this coming Saturday 3rd Oct. An o...

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Saren Dobkins

Aug 18
1 min

A Case of Commoner Salt

A Case of Commoner Salt. Oil on Canvas, 120 x 100cm. 2020 This speaks to the growing protests around the world against entrenched power a...

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Saren Dobkins

Jul 11
1 min

Who Is I

Every now and then, a painting appears that takes me by surprise. I had a drawing, that arrived out of the blue one night. It was in the ...

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Saren Dobkins

Jun 10
2 min

An Upside Down Year

Here we are, half way though the year. In six months time we'll be able to look back with 20/20 vision and maybe then we can make more se...

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Saren Dobkins

Jun 5
2 min

The Process of a Painting

Painting is such a fluid practice. The experience of allowing the hand and the eye and then the imagination to follow the gesture until f...

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Saren Dobkins

Mar 2
2 min

Have you ever seen a dog surf?

Setting goals, and achieving them can be the icing on the cake. Riding my bicycle to Hastings Street from my studio had been one such goa...

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Saren Dobkins

Feb 16
2 min

Anyone seen the map?

I had one of those dreams again. The one where I'm looking for a map, as I wander around a strange city, winding streets, climb hills and...

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Long Lost Paintings Discovered in Cellar

Saren Dobkins

Jan 27
2 min

Long Lost Paintings Discovered in Cellar

As I work towards the upcoming exhibition in May 2020, (details to follow so stay tuned), it occurred to me that I had a couple of painti...

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Saren Dobkins

Dec 18, 2019
2 min

It's HOT and that's not just outside

As the end of the year rushes up to greet us, wish us lots of cheers and then do a swift right turn and we're on highway 2020, I just wan...

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Saren Dobkins

Nov 18, 2019
2 min

Where there's Smoke, there's Fire

When the police came to the door and said, Leave Now, I was as prepared as I thought I could be. I had noticed the smoke, billowing and f...

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Saren Dobkins

Oct 14, 2019
2 min

Getting ready for The Art of Dining

It has been quite an intense few weeks getting the artworks for the upcoming event that is called The Art of Dining. I was invited to exh...

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Saren Dobkins

Oct 13, 2019
2 min

After the Rain

I wake up early here. The sun shines into my face and there's no getting back to sleep. It rained yesterday, loudly and with sparks. The ...

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Saren Dobkins

Oct 11, 2019
0 min

The Art of Dining

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Saren Dobkins

Sep 4, 2019
1 min

Sundays are Art Days.

The Aftermath of the Noosa Open Studios.... what a whirlwind. All that lead up, organisation, concentration, painting and then it was upo...

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Saren Dobkins

Aug 12, 2019
1 min

The Dragonfly Studio is Open

It's a miracle. When the impossible becomes possible.. the feeling is otherworldly. But she exists and arrived, with 5 days before the op...

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Saren Dobkins

Aug 11, 2019
1 min

Qld University Art Museum Collection

On Friday 26th July I attended the opening of the Qld University Art Museum Exhibition, Unlearning. I had been delighted to learn that on...

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Saren Dobkins

May 24, 2019
2 min

From Inside Here

Rising Tide. This work speaks to the role and meaning of my art practice by expressing the different states of mind that being an artist ...

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Saren Dobkins

Apr 7, 2019
1 min

Hard To Sleep With All the Howling

I never anticipated what I would have to give up to have a studio. I have me here, unspoken, unspeaking for most of the time. I'm blessed...

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Saren Dobkins

Apr 7, 2019
1 min

The Shadows at Midnight

The Torn Chrysalis I’ve done what I could and yet the chrysalis grew, I curled up inside, all around me it drew. What made me itch and cr...

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