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 lobster (homarus gammarus), which is native to the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and parts of the Black Sea, and a Maine lobster (homarus americanus) that’s found on the Atlantic coast of North America.