Currently based in Hermanus, Adele has spent the past 15 years mastering oil painting and the past 30 practicing various artistic disciplines as well as teaching art internationally. She holds a BA Drama and Theatre (Hons)degree (cum-Laude) as well as a Post Graduate degree in Higher Education. Adele has sold extensively to collectors locally and abroad. Mainly self-taught she has worked under master artists such as Cornelia Smook, David May and Lorette Espi, and has extensively studied techniques and methods of artists through the ages. Adele believes that experimenting and working in a variety of creative endeavors stimulates this process and has recently shifted her focus from oil painting and sculpture to working with charcoal.

Well-known to the Western Cape art scene she has exhibited here for the past 12 years in joint exhibitions with artist such as Nanette Ranger, Selwyn Pekeur, Willie Bester, Jeffry Appollis, Arno Carstens and Corinne De Haas and has help mulitple successful solo exhibitions during notable festival such as the WOORDFEES in Stellenbosch and the FYNARTS FESTIVAL in Hermanus.

Adele has won two awards for her ceramic works and believes in giving back to the art world through her love of teaching which she continues to do locally but has also done on an inernational level.