[2] Just prior to beginning his formal spiritual exploration, Spira attended a retrospective exhibition by the studio potter Michael Cardew at Camberwell Arts Centre in London.

The poems are either scratched into the glaze in the sgraffito style or written as embossed letters either in a square block or in a single line across the surface of the vessel.

He works in a limited palette, mainly simple white, off-white and black monochromes but he does also occasionally make deep, red-glazed bowls and bright yellow tea sets.

"[8] In 2004, his work was documented in Bowl, published by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts[9] which featured a foreword by David Attenborough and collection of essays including one by the leading English potter and writer Edmund de Waal.

Following in his parents' footsteps,[16] he started studying at Colet House in London at the age of seventeen under Dr Francis Roles (himself a student of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff and the Advaita Vedanta teacher Swami Shantananda Saraswati).

In tandem with his life as a ceramic artist, Spira thus began a twenty year period of study and meditation practice in the classical Advaita Vedanta tradition.

[19] In essence, Spira shares that happiness, or 'enlightenment', can be found if one can identify with the essential nature of our being – pure consciousness – that lies beyond feelings and thoughts.