Saren Dobkins

A wonderful way to bring yet another tumultuous and uncertain year to an end. I was quite honoured to be a Finalist in the prestigious...

It was a fine day last Monday, Trail 1 was open and I had been eagerly anticipating the arrival of a coffee cart. But alas, technical...

Noosa Open Studio Art Trail 2021 is up and running. As a member of the committee, myself and the other volunteers have done an...

It's been a week that went by so fast, just staying one foot in front is tricky. I'm working away from the studio now as a Peer Mentor...

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...