Cindy Wider
Creative Identity Transformation Coach,
Qualified Art Therapist,
Author, Artist
35+ years. Thousands of women.
One steadfast belief
Cindy Wider is a Creative Identity Transformation Coach, qualified Art Therapist HH Prac (Art Th), author, and artist based in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia.
For over 35 years she has been doing one thing: helping accomplished retired women discover that the creative identity they set aside long ago has been waiting for them all along.
Her clients are women who spent decades giving everything to their professions – nursing, teaching, healthcare, administration, leadership. Women who arrive at retirement carrying a quiet, private belief: that they are not creative. That drawing, art, making things, belongs to other people.
Cindy has spent 35 years proving that belief wrong. Gently, permanently, and with undeniable evidence.
She created the Creative Identity Transformation™ Method – a proprietary framework built on a simple, important truth: drawing originates in the logical, analytical brain first. The same intelligence that made these women exceptional in their professions is the exact intelligence drawing requires.
Her Four Comparison Skills – Comparing Angles, Sizes, Tones, and Spaces – are skills every woman already uses every day. Cindy simply shows her how she has been using them all along, and how to use them with a pencil on paper.
The result is not just learning to draw. It is a woman discovering, often for the first time, that she has always been creative. That the gap between what was in her mind and what came out of her hand was never a sign of no ability. It was simply a skill no one had shown her.
Cindy doesn’t just teach this.
She has lived it.
What sets Cindy apart from every other drawing coach is not just her methodology. It is that she is, herself, everything she invites her clients to become.
In addition to her work as a Creative Identity Transformation Coach, Cindy is also a multi-award winning fine artist, and author of seven books, including a children’s picture book she both wrote and illustrated.
Over 35 years she has helped more than 22,000 people learn to draw and dismantle the belief that they are not creative, through her books, teachings, presentations, and international publications. Her work has been licensed by the Cairns Regional Council, featured on UK National Television, and published in leading art magazines across the UK, USA, and Australia.
Her fine art has been shown in solo and joint exhibitions across Queensland and South Australia, internationally at the Derwent Pencil Museum in England and the Menier Gallery in London, and in a Queensland Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition at the State Library of Queensland.
Cindy is based in Cairns, Far North Queensland, where she continues to coach, create, write, and teach, living the creative life she invites every woman she works with to discover.
“Drawing is the carriage. It takes everything you already possesses and lets you express it on paper.”
Three Decades of Fine Art – The Exhibition Catalogues
These three catalogues document Cindy’s journey as a professional fine artist across her career – the galleries, the stories behind each work, and the prices at which they sold. They are offered here as a window into the depth of the creative life Cindy has built and continues to live.
The stories Cindy creates with her own hands
Cindy is also a published children’s book author and illustrator. Her picture book “Mummy’s Biggest Best Birthday Surprise Ever!” is a joyful, warmly illustrated story she both wrote and drew herself.
Cindy created every image in the book herself, by hand, using the same skills she has spent 35 years teaching to women who believe they cannot draw.
She is currently bringing further picture books to life in her studio, a process she shares behind the scenes inside Cindy’s Drawing Club.
Author of Seven Books
Cindy is the author of seven books, including:
Your Creative Identity Transformation (2026)
30,084 words. 35 years of wisdom.
Paint In Your Pyjamas (2006)
Sold out
Mummy’s Biggest Best Birthday Surprise Ever! (2025)
Children’s picture book.
Written and illustrated by Cindy.
Where it all began
Cindy was once the woman who believed she couldn’t draw.
At fourteen, Cindy set drawing aside, having absorbed the quiet message that real talent was something you either had or you didn’t. It took a serious illness in her early twenties to bring her back to it, not as a hobby, but as a necessity. Drawing became her way through. Her form of therapy. Her way back to herself.
What she discovered in that return was not only that she could draw. It was that the gap she had believed was proof of no talent was, in fact, simply a skill she had never been shown.
That discovery changed everything. And she has spent the 35 years since making sure other women don’t have to wait as long as she did to find it.
The woman Cindy works with, in some ways, is the woman she once was before her own creative identity transformation. That is why this work matters so much to her.
As seen and recognised:
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Begin your Creative Identity Transformation
If you are a woman who has carried “I’m not creative” for decades, Cindy would love to hear from you.
The Gold Daisy Experience is the perfect place to begin. Free. No credit card. Instant access.
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