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 squid (loligo vulgaris), which is abundant in the Eastern Atlantic, and a blue-ringed octopus (hapalochlaena maculosa) – the venomous mollusc found in tidal rock pools in Australia’s southern coast.