Notes

‘Bettie Cilliers-Barnard’s consolidated themes stem from the principle of joining and linking all kinds of existing and new motifs. In this way new contexts and new content are created … This is certainly related to the artist’s serious search for a reconciliation of earthly and transcendental perspectives on human existence. Her reaching out to esoteric horizons, to the boundaries of time and space, which have fascinated her from an early stage, still seeks fulfilment in the symbolic values of the human figure. Sometimes these occur with, for example, strange alien beings, primeval animal forms, arrows and sharp triangular shapes.’
Muller Ballott