Mayura draws on an older studio tradition, one where practice and process are open, and visitors are invited in to learn new ways of making and seeing.

Mayura is a working creative studio hosted online and run by artist Tiffany Govender. It’s a place built not only to house finished work, but to make the creative process itself visible, ongoing, and accessible.

Drawing from long-standing studio traditions, Mayura treats practice as something that can be shared, through skills, tools, experiments, images, and questions that unfold over time rather than resolve all at once.

This space welcomes you to set aside the pressure to figure everything out.
You’re invited to look around, move at your own pace, and notice what resonates, whether that’s a way of working, a question you’ve been carrying, or a part of your creative life that’s been waiting for a little more room.

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  • "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire" -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  • When we look with the inner eye, our whole life becomes luminous.

  • Creativity isn't an escape from reality—it's the threshold where we meet it.

GALLERY WALL

A view into Tiffany’s creative work, including recent, resurfacing, and essential pieces.

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Studio Notes
The Long Middle
The Long Middle

On Creativity as Relationship with Life. A reflection on gardening, artmaking, and the long often invisible middle where creativity unfolds as a relationship with time, experience, and connection.

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Somewhere in the Building
Somewhere in the Building

Creating a Home for an Interdisciplinary Creative Practice. Somewhere in the middle of linking posts and rearranging rooms, I realized I wasn’t just building a platform for offerings. I was (finally!) building a place where my work itself could live.

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Trusting the Pie
Trusting the Pie

A studio note from Imbolc on winter work, small systems, stored harvests, and learning to trust what’s already been planted. And pie, of course.

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On Authority, Accountability, and the Ground Action Stands On
On Authority, Accountability, and the Ground Action Stands On

In moments of collective confusion and demand for response, I return to a simple question: “Do I believe that those who create and enforce the rules should also be bound by them?”

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On the Toad (Still)
On the Toad (Still)

For reasons I still don’t fully understand, my phone has been autocorrecting the word road to toad for years. At some point, I stopped fixing it. Oddly, no one asked for clarification.

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Dear Unknown Friend
Dear Unknown Friend

The artifact resurfaced recently through my own deck, by way of another card, which puzzled me until I did some quiet raccoon-ing through old material. It feels a little like a system returning one of its own early seeds once enough time, distance, and experience have unfolded.

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One Eye on Imbolc
One Eye on Imbolc

Right now I’m in that familiar early-season in-between where seeds are ordered, a new grow-light setup is sitting in boxes unassembled, and the landscaper is measuring for new veggie beds while nothing is actually growing yet. The gardener in me is keeping one eye on Imbolc.

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The Plan Problem
The Plan Problem

A few years ago, in a moment of scheduling chaos, I wrote on it, “Maybe the problem is having a plan” as a rather exasperated joke. At the time it felt ridiculous. How would anything ever get done without a plan?

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STUDIO NOTES

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Creativity is larger than any single moment, mood, work, or outcome. A creative voice isn’t just skill or style, but the way attention gathers and returns, the way a relationship is built between a person and the world they’re responding to.

By tending that relationship, people often find steadier ground in their work and in themselves, even when the wider world feels anything but stable.

The tools and offerings that live in this studio are designed to help people notice how they make, where they get stuck, and what patterns shape their creative attention over time. They’re meant to reflect rather than prescribe. Think of them more as mirrors than maps.

This is the purpose of Mayura: to support creative work as a living, ongoing relationship. One that can be practiced, returned to, and sustained over time.

ABOUT TIFFANY

Designer | Artist | Mayura Creator

I’m Tiffany Govender, the artist and designer behind Mayura. With a background in visual communications, fine art, and the humanities, my work centers on creative process, how work takes form, where it gets stuck, and what helps it continue over time.

Mayura grew out of my own creative practice and now functions as an open studio where that process is shared, alongside tools, sessions, and resources for others working through their own creative questions.

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