[1] World War II forced Senbergs and his family out of Latvia to Germany and eventually to Australia, arriving in Melbourne in 1950.
[2][3] Senbergs moved on from screen printing to the industrial cityscapes and ports of Melbourne, the mined landscapes of Tasmania and the Antarctic wilderness.
[4] Spanning his 50-plus year career he has covered figuration, surrealism, expressionism and abstraction in his prints, paintings and drawings.
He has had various important roles in his career including member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council from 1984 to 1987, Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria from 1984 to 1989 and in 1989 he was appointed the Visiting Professor – Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, Boston.
In 2003 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his "service to the Australian visual arts as a painter whose work has been exhibited in, and forms part of, national and international galleries and collections".