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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...

Saren Dobkins
Jun 5, 20202 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Mar 2, 20202 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Feb 16, 20202 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Jan 27, 20202 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Dec 18, 20192 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Nov 18, 20192 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Oct 14, 20192 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Oct 13, 20192 min read



Saren Dobkins
Oct 11, 20190 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Sep 4, 20191 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Aug 12, 20191 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Aug 11, 20191 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
May 24, 20192 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Apr 7, 20191 min read


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...

Saren Dobkins
Apr 7, 20191 min read


Studio Moving Sale
All Welcome to the One Day Studio Moving Sale Sunday 25th November 11am – 4pm 50 Parsons St, Kensington Melbourne Up to 50% OFF on...

Saren Dobkins
Oct 27, 20181 min read


Going, Going, Gone
Take Me With You, Oil on Canvas, 2018 The river of change is happening folks and I am wading into the stream. As many of you know, I have...

Saren Dobkins
Oct 24, 20182 min read


Living the Change and the Global Climate Summit
As we all know there is a growing global momentum around making changes to both managing the effects of climate change and changing...

Saren Dobkins
Sep 14, 20181 min read


Pop Up Art Collection
I will be showing some of the works that I create that usually never see the light of day. I paint Abstract Expressionist work which...

Saren Dobkins
Aug 14, 20181 min read


The After party
I hope the stormy, wild weather didn't keep you away for the opening. It was a very small crack, but as Leonard Cohen says, t is the...

Saren Dobkins
Jul 31, 20181 min read
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