Sioux Dollman, right, gives Maggie Lloyd-Smith of Yarra Glen some tips at Healesville. Other class members are Vicki Lloyd-Smith, Stephanie Phillips and Upper Yarra Art Centre’s Mary-Jane Warfield. 23243
By Kath Gannaway
SIOUX Dollman’s mother returned from a holiday in Spain to find a mosaic installation in her loungeroom and crockery missing from the kitchen.
Sioux was about 20 when she first tried her hand at mosaics.
“I smashed just about everything in the kitchen to mosaic behind the potbelly,” she laughed as she shared a little of her own beginnings with her class of first-timers at Healesville last week.
Sioux is well-known in Warburton as a master of mosaic art.
Her life-size mosaic unicorn and fairies are just two works which have amazed and delighted young and old when they have been displayed at the Upper Yarra Arts Centre in recent times.
Sioux, who regularly runs art and mosaic courses in Warburton, took two-day workshops in Warburton and Healesville as part of the Shire of Yarra Ranges’ Cultural Services’ school holiday program.
“Mosaics is a forgotten art. In Europe you see mosaics everywhere,” Sioux said.
“I love doing the workshops with kids and adults … everyone comes out with such individual pieces.”
