Striped surgeonfish hand-painted porcelain serving platter

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. This serving platter spotlights a striped surgeonfish (acanthurus lineatus), which is found on exposed coral reefs in the tropical, Indo-West-Central Pacific.