Suvira's background in ceramics spans years of producing vessels in many variations. Currently, the vessel is another canvas for the landscape theme that pervades the work. Many glazes that colour the Landscape Gallery have originated on a Chun platter, Celadon bowl or thickly encrusted jar.

"My wheel thrown ceramic pieces reflect the influence of the traditional forms of Oriental ceramics; Chinese and Japanese traditions have deeply affected not only Australian but world  ceramics and are quite evident in my work. The purity of the Classic reduction glazes over the porcelain clay bodies currently marketed by Australian Clay Companies is becoming an important part of my practice. I have a special penchant for Chun, Celadon and Copper Reds of the Sung Dynasty Chinese potters.
Alongside this I will seize any opportunity to wood fire work. My wood firing education was in the lineage of the Terania Creek Potters of northern NSW.  I love the physicality, the process and the vitality of the raw flame but the colours and surface textures emerging from a wood fired kiln are quintessential to the Australian landscape, especially the interior arid zones. Desertscape was produced immediately after my visit to Central Australia in 2005."