Spiritual practice

For Auckland’s Jen Sievers, creating colours and applying them to a surface to see what will emerge is the embodiment of happiness. She describes the act of painting as a soulful expression of pure joy, one that lets her lose herself in her colours for hours at a time.

So, Jen, tell us about the pivotal moment when you really engaged with painting… It came about five years ago, just after I’d moved up into the Waitakeres with my husband Jorin and