• Araceli hand paints Australian native flora and fauna onto porcelain
• She elevates the natural world to remind us of its value
• Her studio practice is regenerative, putting more back into nature than she takes

When Araceli Robledo Adams was a child, her family moved from Spain to Australia, where her parents would point out the wildlife that surrounded them with awe. Later life took her back to Spain, as well as London and Toronto, where Araceli always painted watercolours of her surroundings, finding artist circles and studios wherever she went. A ceramics course in Greenwich Village sparked her love for porcelain, leading her back to Australia where she studied further, met her husband and settled in Sydney. "One Easter at Lake Macquarie, we caught blue swimmer crabs, and I painted one," she says. Soon, she began hand painting native wildlife onto porcelain. For Araceli, adorning tableware with these creatures is a reminder to us all that nature is the ultimate luxury.