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 shaw’s cowfish (aracana aurita) which is endemic to the southern half of Australia – also known as the Great Southern Reef – where it inhabits rocky reefs and seagrass beds, as well as a saddleback butterflyfish (chaetodon ephippium) which is found in the tropical Indo-Pacific, where it inhabits areas with rich coral growth in lagoons and seaward reefs.