Renowned SA Artist Jill Adams (1932-2016) Lilac Crested Roller Original Coloured Pencil Drawing

INVESTMENT ART !! STUNNING RENOWNED SA ARTIST JILL ADAMS (1932 - 2016) ORIGINAL HIGHLY DETAILED COLOURED PENCIL DRAWING. TITLED LILAC CRESTED ROLLER AND SIGNED JIL ADAMS IN PENCIL. MOST OF HER ORIGINAL DRAWINGS ARE IN THE MCGREGOR MUSEUM IN KIMBERLEY - IT IS RARE TO SEE HER ORIGINAL ARTWORK TO COME UP ON AUCTION!
 
THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL IN HER ARTWORK IS PHENOMENAL - IT IS SO WELL DONE IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE A PHOTOGRAPH. A chunky, large-headed bird with a lilac breast, rusty cheeks, and spring-green crown. Singles and pairs sit on prominent perches in open woodland and lightly-treed grasslands. THIS BEHAVIOUR AND THE LILAC CRESTED ROLLER BEAUTIFUL ARRAY OF COLOURS IS PERFECTLY CAPTURED IN THIS DRAWING BY JILL ADAMS.
 
BEAUTIFULY FRAMED WITH GLASS IN FRONT. NOTE I HAVE 3 COLOURED DRAWING BY JILL ADAMS ON AUCTION THIS WEEK!
 
MARKINGS:
IN PENCIL LILAC CRESTED ROLLER AND JIL ADAMS
 
SIZE:
FRAME: 50CM WIDE 60CM HIGH
PAINTING: 30CM WIDE 40CM HIGH
CONDITION: FRAME AND ARTWORK IN GOOD CONDITION. WITH GLASS IN FRONT AND HANGING CORD AT BACK.
 
JILL ADAMS (1932-2016):
Jill Adams is a South African artist who has specialised in natural history illustrations. She was born in Durban in 1932, but lived for part of her life in Kimberley, where, on the staff of the McGregor Museum (1974-1983), she published her illustrated Flowering Plants of the Northern Cape (1976). She achieved public renown for her paintings of Aloes.
She subsequently collaborated with ornithologist Richard Liversidge making their book, The birds around us: birds of the Southern African region (1990). The illustrations produced for The birds around us have been described as "the product of her outstanding draughtsmanship, coupled with a keen sense of observation and knowledge of the "natural pose" of birds." In order to keep the collection in the Northern Cape most of the original paintings were purchased by the Gant family and donated to the McGregor Museum in 1991. Jill Adams lived in Somerset West until her death in 2016.
 
LILAC CRESTED ROLLER:
The lilac-breasted roller is an African bird of the roller family. It is widely distributed in Southern and Eastern Africa. It prefers open woodland and savanna, and it is for the most part absent from treeless places.
The lilac-breasted roller has a wide array of colours on its feather coat. In total, it has around 8 colours: green, white, black, yellow, turquoise, dark blue, reddish-brown, and lilac. The lilac-breasted roller is Kenya's national bird - the colours are supposed to represent the many different tribes that make up Kenya's community.
Lilac breasted rollers are believed to be monogamous and mate for life, and in winter, they even stay together in small family groups.
Lilac-breasted rollers are carnivores. They feed on arthropods and small vertebrates, including ground-dwelling insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and millipedes, snails, and a variety of small vertebrates, including small birds.
A chunky, large-headed bird with a lilac breast, rusty cheeks, and spring-green crown. Singles and pairs sit on prominent perches in open woodland and lightly-treed grasslands. It has an amazing display flight which includes side-to-side rolling, which gives rollers their name. Mostly quiet, but sometimes calls a loud guttural gwhaaak, gwhaaak. European Roller is chunkier, has a blue breast and face, and has a shorter, square-tipped tail.
 
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