Marin Dobson is an artist who has won awards and national recognition for her distinctive oil paintings.Her oil paintings have been selected for prestigious national shows around the country including New York, NY, San Francisco and Carmel CA, Scottsdale AZ, Santa Fe and Taos, NM, Hilton Head NC, . Some of these juried shows include the Oil Painters of America National and Regional Shows, the American Women Artists National Shows, the Society of Master Impressionists International Show, the Museum of Contemporary Masters and Greenhouse Gallery International Shows, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe National Show, the Allied Artists of America National Show and the Audubon Artists National Shows. 
Marin's trademark oil paintings display a luminous color quality and poetic forms. Her paintings transcend the physical scenes depicted on canvas and evoke emotion through the bold use of color, texture, and composition.  Her work describes lyrical forms and patterns of light in a painterly style that reflect the influences of her Russian impressionist training and her study of classical painting technique.