Adli grew up in the Klein Karoo where she finished school with Art as a matric subject.
She moved to the Boland where she studied, worked, got married, raised a family and worked, worked, worked.
Eventually the frustrated artist surfaced again. Since 2000 she had brief periods of art classes with Andrew Owen, the late Susan du Preeze, Marion Langton, Peter Earl and Shelley Adams, working mainly in water colours, but also in acrylic, charcoal, collage and mixed media.
During 2005 she studied under Anne-Marie Bands, learning the art of icon writing, completing a course in the ancient Byzantine Technique, using egg-tempera, natural pigments on prepared board with gold leaf.
She is an ex- member of the Somerset West Water Colour Society and the Hermanus Art Society (now extinct).
She exhibits in various galleries in Bellville, Somerset West, Bettys Bay and Greater Hermanus.
Although a traditional water colorist she also favours ordinary pencil as a complete medium, which she finds more sympathetic than water colour.
She paints seascapes, landscapes, family homesteads on commission, aquatic life, flowers, trees and figure studies; has illustrated various cookbooks and documentary “country stories”.
She currently lives in De Kelders, close to the sea.