Barbara Pike

Rosalie Barbara Pike (born 29 March 1933) is a South African botanical artist.

She attended the Parktown High School for Girls[1] in Johannesburg and matriculated in 1949.

She worked as biochemist and medical artist at the Department of Surgery and Medicine, Witwatersrand University from 1953 to 1955.

After this she returned to Witwatersrand University once again to take up the post of botanical illustrator for the Botany Department between the years 1957 to 1985.

Her first award was in 1945 at the National Eisteddfod when she won first place in the category 'illustration under 12 years of age'.