Saren Dobkins

My days and now my nights are frequently punctuated by searing shots of pain, that leave me stranded on the spot. Like a wounded animal,...

I'm finding myself losing so much time as I am too easily distracted. I have a few things on my to do list and that list is groaning...

Resilience was sold on the Opening Night. Entry to the Toowoomba Grammar Art Show was quite impressive. So many beautiful artworks, and...

I recently published my culmination of over 30 years of my exhibiting history into a full-colour, soft bound document. It took quite a...

I just love how things unfold. I am ridiculously unfocused yet my attention on where I want to go never falters.. and as a result I had a...

A valid question where the unpredictability of the times could just as easily pull the chair from under you as the 'rona, as I just read...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...