At first he created paintings of fairy-tale themes, he also worked as an illustrator. He had been strongly influenced by Władysław Podkowiński. Around 1897 he also made landscape paintings, of the area around Lviv. He arrived to the property of Stanisław Jerzy Hofmokl who in the village of Zarzecze bought an estate and mansion from the Kostheimów. When arriving he had painted landscapes and the Zarzecka chapel, "Zarzecze thought to be one of the most beautiful parts of Poland". In 1908 he settled in Zakopane and since then he painted mostly landscapes of the Tatra Mountains, which are shown at exhibitions. He created many post cards which popularised the Tatra Mountains and him in the region. His popular and most notable works of art include:
Pejzaże śródziemnomorskie 5 obrazów współoprawionych, oil on canvas, 31,7 × 54,5 cm
Cyprysy, oil on canvas, 123 × 81 cm
Pejzaż, oil on canvas, 8,5 × 11,5 cm
Portret góralki, oil on canvas, 63 × 68 cm
Góralka, after 1910, oil on canvas, 63 × 60 cm
Portret dziewczynki, watercolour on paper, 22 × 16 cm
Kozi Wierch, 1911–1912, oil on canvas, 90,5 × 116 cm
Pniak w lesie, 1913, oil on canvas, 30,8 × 41,5 cm
Czarny Staw, 1920, private
Krajobraz górski, 1922
Pejzaż górski z limbą, oil on canvas
Pejzaż górski, oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm
Baca z owcami, 1923, oil on canvas
Hala Kondratowa, oil on canvas
Wypas owiec w górach, 1921, oil on canvas
Wypas owiec w górach, 1924, oil on canvas, 31 × 35 cm
Wypas owiec, 1924, pastel on canvas, 49 × 68,5 cm
Pejzaż tatrzański, 1925, oil on plywood
Kwitnąca jabłoń, 1926, oil on canvas, 35,5 × 30 cm, private
Łąka w górach, oil on canvas, 21,5 × 38 cm, private
Czarny Staw, 1926, oil on canvas, 31,5 × 36 cm, private
Limby nad Morskim Okiem, 1927, oil, tempera on canvas, 30,8 × 35,5 cm
Owce na hali tatrzańskiej, 1927, oil on canvas, 30 x 35,2
Cielę przed szałasem w górach'', 1929, oil on canvas.
Membership in organisations
Ćwikliński belonged to Zakopane's Union of Artists, he was also active in the Association of the Public Library.
The first thematic exhibition of landscape paintings in the Tatra house "Jutrzenka" in Zakopane, in December 1909.
Exhibition in Kraków's National Museum for Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych, February–March 1912, 48 landscape paintings of the Tatra Mountains.
In Zakopane in 1931 was held his posthumous exhibition.
He exhibited in Lviv, Warsaw and Kraków, as well as abroad in. In 1930 at the international exhibition of mountaineering in Budapest his painting under the title of Limba had been distinguished and awarded.
