Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, DMS (18 November 1914 – 15 September 2010) was a South African abstract artist, generally known for her large canvases of birds in flight.
Her South African graphic art exhibitions abroad have included Austria, Germany, Spain, Greece and Israel, to name a few.
Ballot says the following about her work: 'The artist's current period of consolidated themes stems from the principle of joining and linking all kinds of existing and new motifs.
Her reaching out to esoteric horizons, to the boundaries of time and space, which have fascinated her from an early stage, still seeks fulfillment in the symbolic values of the human figure.
Stephan Welz, art expert and executive director of Strauss & Co, believes Cilliers-Barnard's work doesn't fetch very high prices currently "because she is part of the forgotten generation who experienced the worst of the cultural isolation during apartheid.