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About Ann-Marie Cheung

Fascinated and intrigued with ornate designs, ancient patterns, colour and texture, I am an artist constantly exploring and creating with acrylic and mixed media.

Themes include whimsical “HomeScapes”, amusing creatures, goddesses, mandalas, and imagined trees using vivid colours.

I am a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and have also obtained The Royal Conservatory, Learning Through the Arts® Artist-Educator Foundations Course Certificate.  I have had numerous solo and group exhibits across Canada.  Mywork is part of the Canada Council Art Bank collection and has been published in Zen Doodle Tons of Tangles.  The Healing Garden, an adult colouring book, is a published collection of my drawings.  My award winning work can be found in numerous private collections around the world.

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Colouring book by artist Ann-Marie Cheung available now!

Relax and enjoy colouring these intricate drawings. They will provide hours of stress relief resulting in your own delightful works of art. Coloured pencils are recommended.

The Healing Garden colouring book by Ann-Marie Cheung
The Healing Garden colouring book

“The Healing Garden” an adult colouring book by Ann-Marie Cheung.
Ann-Marie is a mixed media visual artist living in Ontario, Canada. She is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, Toronto and has had numerous solo and group exhibits across Canada. Her award winning work can be found in numerous private collections around the world.

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Owl coloured by Ann-Marie Cheung

Dianoche Designs art by Ann-Marie Cheung
Personalize your living space with DiaNoche Designs! Like my art? It’s now available on home decor, yoga mats, tote bags, throw pillows and so much more.
Proudly raising awareness and funding for Violence Against Women Services Elgin County.
Railway City Arts Crawl

My Collection of Inspirational Quotes

“And the stars look very different today.”
~ David Bowie

“Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.”
~ Albert Einstein

“Know yourself. Trust yourself. Love yourself. Be yourself.
And remember, the life you live are the lessons you teach. Be limitless.”
~ Jim Kwik

“When life knocks you down you have two choices – stay down or get up.”
~ Tom Krause

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
~ Vincent Van Gogh

“What day is it?” asked Pooh
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day.” said Pooh.

“I realized this week that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what I can fabulously.”
~ Clinton Kelly

“Life loves you!”
~ Louise L. Hay

“The world is changed by your example and not your opinion.”
~ Paulo Coelho

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“Welcome to the Present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is,”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.”
~ Zig Ziglar

“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”
~ Buddha

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
~ Pablo Picasso

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“Action is the foundational key to success.”
~ Pablo Picasso

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
~ Tony Robbins

“Bite off more than you can chew, then chew like crazy.”
~ Crocodile Dundee

“The only person you are destined to become, is the person you decide to be.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
~ Maya Angelou

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
~ Rumi

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
~ Lao Tzu

“It always seems impossible until it’s done,”
~ Nelson Mandela

“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
~ Buddha

“Success is the sum of all small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
~ Robert Collier

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
~ Maya Angelou

“Things do not change WE change.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“We’re all just walking each other home.”
~ Ram Dass

“I am not afraid, for I was born to do this.”
~ Joan of Arc

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
~ Carl Jung

“Let yourself become living poetry.”
~ Rumi

“Let your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.”
~ Nelson Mandela

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
~ Rumi

“If the only prayer you ever say is ‘Thank you’, it will be enough.”
~ Meister Eckhart

“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.”
~ Helen Keller

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
~ C.S. Lewis

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”
~ Og Mandino

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
~ Helen Keller

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
~ Thomas Edison

“Creativity takes courage.”
~ Henri Matisse

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possible not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
~ Anais Nin

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
~ Nelson Mandela

“Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
~ Og Mandino

“Healing is the unification of all our forces.”
~ Gabrielle Roth

“Stop trying to be perfect and start being remarkable.”
~ Seth Godin

“Unfold your own myth.”
~ Rumi

“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
~ Carl Jung

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~ Anaïs Nin

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
~ Albert Einstein

“We are all travelers on a cosmic journey.”
~ Paul Coelho

“In every job that must be done there is an element of fun.”
~ Mary Poppins

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”
~ Jon F. Kennedy

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
~ Wayne Gretsky

“To succeed in life, you need three things: A wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.”
~ Reba McEntire

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
~ Mark Twain

“But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.”
~ Arianna Huffington

“We all have within us, a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don’t know we have it.”
~ Skakti Gawain

“We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share the cure of unification.”
~ Gabrielle Roth

“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.”
~ Zig Ziglar

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
~ R.W.Emerson

“You had the power all along, my dear.”
~ Glinda, The Good Witch

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings  to fly?”
~ Frida Kahlo

“Focus like a laser, not a flashlight.”
~ Michael Jordan

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.”
~ Zig Ziglar

“There are no failures, only quitters.”
~ Darren Hardy

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
~ Maya Angelou

“You may have made some mistakes, and you may not be where you want to be, but that’s got nothing to do with your future.”
~ Zig Ziglar

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
~ Bruce Lee

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”
~ Dr Seuss

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.”
~ Albert Einstein

“This turning towards what you truly love saves you.”
~ Rumi

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
~ Oprah Winfrey

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life that you have imagined.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“Despite what we think, we don’t need confidence to make a change. Make the change and the confidence will come.”
~ Philip McKeman

“If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
~ Maya Angelou

“Don’t envy the achiever. BE the Achiever!”
~ Darren Hardy

“What you seek is seeking you.”
~ Rumi

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are stardust,
we are golden,
we are billion year
old carbon,
And we got to get
ourselves back to
the garden.”
~ Crosby Stills Nash & Young

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
~ Rumi

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
~ Ayn Rand

“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”
~ Henry Miller

“And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”
~ Rumi

“There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.”
~ Stephen Pressfield
The War of Art

“Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.”
~ Rumi

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
~ Wayne Dyer

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”
~ Rumi

Making a living as an artist

Hey artists, do you have a difficult time trying to make a living through your art sales alone? It’s useful to have multiple sources of income, such as gallery showings, teaching, online sales, commission projects,  grants, selling reproductions of your work like prints and greeting cards, and product licensing. Social media is booming, there are many artists doing tutorials on YouTube. You can make money through paid ads if you have a large following.

4 Ways to Earn Money as an Artist

Have you ever tried affiliate marketing as a extra source of income? I just got approved and am so excited to start working with this company! I’ve tried Google Adsense and Amazon before but the payouts are small in comparison.

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The Healing Garden – Colouring book

Healing Garden by Ann-Marie Cheung

You can purchase my colouring book on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.

Relax and enjoy colouring these intricate drawings by artist Ann-Marie Cheung. They will provide hours of stress relief resulting in your own delightful works of art. Coloured pencils are recommended.

Decorate your home

Home decor

My work is now available at Dianoche Designs! Fill your home with my art on bath mats, towels, shower curtains, and area rugs.

Personalize your living space with DiaNoche Designs!

The Why: Power of your Purpose

by Ann-Marie Cheung

I’m working my way through the The Artist’s Profit Plan training with Alexis Fedor. This is the first work sheet The Power of your Purpose.

What is the first memory you have connected to creating art?

I can’t remember my first time creating art, but aren’t all children creative? I remember my mom showing me how to draw cartoon cats. I had a wonderful elementary school teacher who gave me advanced class assignments. While the other kids were drawing cones and spheres, I was learning to draw and shade drapery. Miss P. with her heavy blue eye makeup, long dark hair and mini skirts (this was the 70s) was an amazing guide. I was also fortunate to have a fantastic high school art teacher, Miss W. I remember her heavy Egyptian style eye makeup and long black hair. We had an artists cafe night where we would paint a self portrait in the style of a certain artist. I chose Van Gogh, don’t know what happened to those early paintings. She also arranged my first public group art show of still life charcoal drawings at the Toronto Dominion Centre in downtown Toronto.  With so much encouragement how could I not decide on an art career attending the Ontario College of Art.

What is the most profound experience you’ve had as an artist in your life (if you had to pick just one, in this moment)? 

I was in an exhibition entitled SHE at the Illumine Gallery in St Thomas, Ontario. For this show I painted “She Survived” which was donated to raise funds for Violence Against Women Services Elgin County. I felt a deep sense of purpose and joy knowing that I helped other women. Four years previous to this, I left an abusive relationship.

She Survived 2017 by Ann-Marie Cheung
She Survived, 12×12 acrylic on canvas 2017 by Ann-Marie Cheung

I went through a dry period of about 15 years creating no art at all while in this stifling relationship. When it inevitably came to an end, I began to make art again and have shows. I healed myself through art.

How are the two connected?

The connection I see is women helping and connecting with other women on a deeper level and being inspired and motivated by strong women.

What is your WHY?

Why I create art is to express and share my inner goddess and help people heal and feel joy through art. This is how I communicate and deeply connect with the world.

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What are at least three traits those who have resonated with and/or invested in your work or your services in the past have in common with each other?

My clients tend to be leaders in the community holding an upper management position or running their own businesses. They are strong, independent, confident and usually women. They express gratitude, are generous, joyful and appreciate nature and art.

What is the one question you can ASK your potential ideal clients to learn more about how you can help them with your offers?

When it comes to making an art purchase, what is your single greatest challenge?
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