Adriaan is an award winning international photographer.
His honours include:
- Shortlisted for ArtGemini 2016 International Art Competition (Photography), with “Snowdrop in Melting Frost”
- First Prize Winner: ArtGemini 2015 International Art Competition (Photography), with “Ode to Mortality”
- Finalist in the Black and White Charles Dodgson Award 2015 with “Snow at Sunrise, Lindow Common”
- Finalist in the 2015 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition (Best Portfolio Category)
- Selected to be a Featured Artist on Rise Art
- Runner-Up in the Embler Gallery Annual Art Contest for International Airports (2014); work featured in new Catalogue
- Runner-Up (Second Prize) Winner in the Art Has No Borders International Art Competition on the Animal Kingdom with Elephant Greeting, Maasai Mara, Kenya (2014)
- Finalist in the 2014 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition with Cheetah in Landscape, Ol Pajeta, Kenya
- Highly Commended in the 2014 USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition for Santa Fe Mountains, New Mexico
- Shortlisted for the East West Art Awards 2014 with Sunset, South Stack Lighthouse, Anglesey
- Selected to be one of four Artists in Residence at the JARFO Gallery, Kyoto, in 2015
- Sunset, Kimmeridge, Jurassic Coast received Honourable Mention in the Light Space and Time Gallery’s international art competition on SeaScapes 2014
- Ice on Black Lake, Cheshire accepted for the Art Has No Borders iArtBook featuring 101 Abstract & Non-Figurative Artworks, following an international competition (2014)
- Finalist in the Shoot the Frame 2014 Shoot the Wild international competition with two images: Elephant Speed Limit and Red Deer Stag and Hind, Richmond Park
- Red Deer Stag and Hind, Richmond Park received a Special Recognition award in the Light Space & Time Gallery’s Nature photography competition 2014; Lioness with Cub received a Special Merit award in the same competition.



