Biography

Sevania was born in Soapy Bore, Utopia and started to paint when she was a teenager. She learnt the way to paint landscape and bush medicine from her mother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney and her grandmother Eileen Kemarre Bonney, a former health worker and artist. Sevania enjoys painting she says it soothing and makes her feel calm.  Sevania now paints and shares her knowledge with her twin daughters so they can learn as she did with her grandmother.
“I like to go hunting, watching landscape, pretty flowers after the rain” “I like also to paint the landscape around Canteen Creek, my great grandmothers country.”