Cynthia (Cyd) Wicker consciously and carefully works to capture the essence of each subject she paints. She studied at West Texas State University, Yale School of Music and Art, and most notably Atelier Lack, with Richard Lack. She was a recipient of the Ellen Beattel Stoechel scholarship from Yale University and awarded an internship from the National Collection of Fine Arts, at the Smithsonian Institute.

For more than ten years, Barbara Kletschka and Bob Conroy worked with priests, bishops, theologians and lay faithful to determine how to represent the theology of the great incomprehensible mystery. Artist Cynthia (Cyd) Wicker, who referred to herself as “The Brush” passionately accomplished these oil on canvas works.