WELCOME

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STUDIO

ABOUT MAYURA

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 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.

By making process accessible, the studio becomes a place where others can explore their own relationship to making; learn through shared questions and guidance; and engage in dialogue with other people who relate to the world by making things.

MAYURA’S PURPOSE

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.

Mayura Principles

  • Image as Inner Language

    Images are mirrors of the soul, revealing relationship with the deeper Self.

  • Cyclical & Organic Time

    True change unfolds in spirals and seasons, not straight lines.

  • Visionary Pragmatism

    Insight must move from the imaginal into embodied form.

  • Alchemy & Integration of Opposites

    Transformation happens by holding paradox until something new is born.

  • Inner Governance

    Archetypes and inner figures serve as guides toward balance and alignment.

  • Creativity as Spiritual Practice

    Art, myth, and symbol are sacred languages of the soul. The act of creating shapes the self as much as the work.

  • Mystery as Teacher

    We honor ambiguity, paradox, and emergence as essential to growth.

Mayura is the Sanskrit word for peacock.

The peacock refuses to be practical. It is expansive and impossible to make subtle.

In a culture that pressures creative work to justify itself quickly through clarity or practicality, Mayura takes a different stance.

The studio is named for what refuses to be reduced: work that develops through return, attention, and time. The peacock is the patron saint for a studio where work is allowed to remain whole, contradictory, and irreducible.