heart of the matter - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2016
what we do not see - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2016
81% blue - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2015
two figures on red ground - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2016
after Oliveria - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2015
oak against sky - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2017
yellow field, blue sky - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2017
figures in red and orange - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2015
blue heart with two figures -oil on canvas, 36x48, 2017
waiting - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2017
two woman walking - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2017
two figures facing forward - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2018
girl and her child - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2013
camp laymon, plumas county - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2020
jazz - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2016
pink robe - oil on canvas 36x48, 2016
water under bridge #1 - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2020
volcano - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2020
oakland hills #1 - looking north, oil on canvas, 24x48, 2009
the Snake River - oil on canvas, 72x56, 2010
two discs and triangle - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2016
blue heart - oil on canvas, 36x48, 2016
girl in pink dress - oil on canvas, 24x30, 2015
engagement of yang & yin - oil on canvas, 40x30, 2017
death rock rapid on the Stanislaus River - oil on canvas, 42x24, 2015
neighborhood - oil on canvas, 48x24, 2019
couple dancing - oil on canvas, 18x24, 2014
leaving san ramon - oil on canvas, 28x26, 1998
oakland hills #3 - oil on canvas, 24x36, 2009
woman’s face, ochre - oil on canvas, 12x16, 2015
woman with blue & red sundress - oil on canvas, 12x16, 2015
woman with yellow hat - oil on canvas, 12x16, 2015
three vases & cup, oil on canvas - 12x16, 2015
girl carrying water glasses - oil on canvas, 9x12, 2015
the bathers - acrylic on canvas, 30x40, 2017
oakland hills #2 - oil on canvas, 30x40, 2009
death valley 1849 - oil on canvas, 58x46, 2019
water under the bridge #2 - oil on canvas, 52x16, 2020
death valley 2018 - oil on canvas, 36x24, 2020
death by starvation - oil on canvas, 25x34, 2015
houses up the hill #1 - oil on canvas, 30x24, 2015
water falls - oil on canvas, 22x18, 2020
night and blue heart - oil on canvas, 18x24, 2020
meadow river - oil on canvas, 18x24, 2020
red earth - oil on canvas, 18x24, 2020
water cuts rock - oil on canvas, 16x20, 2020
the coast road - oil on canvas, 24x18, 2020
rapids - oil on canvas, 40x30, 2010
houses up the hill #2 - oil on canvas, 24x18, 2018
houses up the hill #3 - oil on canvas, 24x18, 2018
fairmount avenue - oil on canvas, 18x24, 2018
across the road - oil on canvas, 18x24, 2018
the Tatshenshini River - oil on canvas, 14x18, 2019
outside the gate - oil on canvas, 24x18, 2015
kate dobbins
Kate Dobbins, born in Oakland, California in 1938, has lived on the East Coast, in Turkey, Germany, Spain; and now, again, resides in Oakland. Her working life has been eclectic: waiter, cab driver, white water rafting guide, legal summarizer, literature & writing teacher in community colleges, technical communication writer. In the 1990s, she started taking art classes at Laney College (Oakland); then, in 2009, enrolled in the San Francisco Studio School, where she studied formal aspects of painting until the end of 2010. In addition to the Impressionists, Cezanne, Matisse, Kandinsky, Guston—her work is inspired by the Society of Six and Bay Area Figurative painters.
