Araceli of Casa Adams found her muse along the shorelines of her husband’s family home in Lake Macquarie. She works from her Sydney-based studio – aptly named Coconut Crab – where she crafts and paints species-specific porcelain by hand. Each piece is designed to spread the word about marine conservation, with watercolour-like glazes mirroring the varied palette of the underwater world. These only-at-ABASK plates spotlight a European brown crab (cancer pagurus), which is found in the North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, and a Chesapeake blue crab (callinectes sapidus) that’s primarily found on the Atlantic Coast of North and South America, as well as the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas (where it’s considered an invader).