Welcome to Hargest Creative
We’re Mayuri and Kevin Hargest, a husband and wife team offering wellbeing consultancy, coaching, creative workshops, visual note-taking, original art commissions, physical and digital art products and original fiction (yes, ALL that!).
We can be found in-person in and around Birmingham, UK and online.
Our workshops make use of our skills as a qualified therapist (Kev) and insight-minded coaches (Mayuri & Kev) to bring healing, self-inspired wisdom and hope to those we are privileged to work alongside.
Our art is created as an expression of our experience. It’s meant to inspire joy and invite curiosity.
Kev
comes from a family of creatives. He’s been painting, writing (poerty and fiction) and singing for over 30 years. His work is inspired by story and mythology. He’s particualrly good at creating seascapes and conceptual art.
Most recently his work has been featured in the Birmingham Open in Victoria Square (2025), he was long-listed in the Visual Artists’ Open (VAO) Artist of The Year competition (2024, 2025) and had a special recognition in the Light, Space and Time online art gallery (Seascapes, 2025).
Kev’s therapeutic background stems from Systemic Thinking and Critical Analysis. He’s since trained as a professional coach and clinical supervisor. He deeply cares about the way people think and how their social, physical and psychological environments shape their worldview.
Mayuri
thought she wasn’t creative, science was her bent, and yet she’s rediscovering her play and years later is regularly creating and inspiring others to create too.
She works as a manager in Data Analytics in her employed role. She thrives in community-driven spaces, fostering connection and joy, including running a monthly in-person craft night and starting a craft club in her workplace.
As a coach, much of her work centres around supporting people in moments of transition e.g. becoming self-employed, moving into employment, onboarding well into new job roles. She also uses her tech and coaching skills to support SMEs to understand and map their systems, in order to simplify and bring joy to their work (once again).
In life, she crochets, doodles, sketchnotes, and her artistic work draws on her Indian heritage.
She’s recently begun to explore relief print-making on linocut, discovering in the journey that she is indeed able to sketch (more than she ever thought).
In whatever capacity you meet us, whether as an organisation or individual, we want you leave feeling strengthened. Through our wellbeing work and art we want to facilitate growth in thinking, action and for you to gain awareness of your internal narratives.
Sometimes you’re looking for art that invites you to look time and again, finding a moment to gather thoughts (or to get lost in them); indeed to find a new facet each time you view the piece. Other times you need to speak to someone, to find rest in creativity for yourself, or to simply (learn to) be.
Life sometimes leaves us in places that we’re uncomfortable, stagnate, and from where we wish to move on and grow. We believe that a mix of creativity and wellbeing supports this. However you find yourself or your organisation, we hope you find a place with us where you can untangle and get clarity.
Our in-person workshops, exhibitions and art markets are held in and around South Birmingham, and we offer free delivery to the local area too. Much of our work can be viewed online right here, and we are happy to host initial conversations, some workshops and wellbeing services online also.
Check out our Wellbeing page to find out more about our services, our Events page to meet us, the Gallery to see an array of our art and visual notes and to get inspiration for commissions and/or Contact us to find out anything else.
To hear from us directly, join our Creative’s Chronicle newsletter. We are building up to a regular cadence, share about our creative practice, wellbeing work, and send a short, written reflection to ponder upon approximately every month to six weeks.