Bio + Statement
Anne Leuck is a lifelong artist and educator with over 25 years of experience in painting, illustration, and design. She continues to create and sell her paintings and design work, which has been licensed, published, and exhibited widely.
At the heart of her creative life is a daily sketchbook journaling practice she began in 2001—combining words and images to explore personal growth, capture ideas, and document everyday life.
Anne shares this practice through live and online courses and art retreats around the world, helping others reconnect with their creativity, reflect deeply, and tell their own stories on the page.
STATEMENT
I'm a playful artist and creative self-discovery guide obsessed with making art and teaching the transformative power of sketchbook journaling.
I've been on a long, mostly quiet healing journey. For the past decade, I've done the work—reflecting, learning, practicing, and growing.
I love guiding others using what I've learned through lived experience, deep listening, and tools shared by generous mentors along the way.
Sketchbook journaling is the anchor. It helps people slow down, tell the truth, and reconnect with themselves through words and images.
Self-expression builds self-trust. Self-trust changes how you live.
One sketchbook page won't fix the world. But it can change your world. And that's where real change starts
+ Check out my live online and self-study courses at the links
Process / Studio
My processes are varied depending on the project. My daily sketchbooks are the core of my practice, I use digital illustration for much of my design work. My general painting portfolio consists of images I create with acrylics on wood panels, stretched canvas or cardboard in my studio.
In more recent years I’ve developed two new painting series: Freak Show (a riff off vintage circus sideshow banners paired with the physical and emotional realities of middle age) and Paintings on Glass. I’ve also kept a random series of drawings in my used up hardcover sudoku books called Sudoku Scribbles. Those things, of course, in addition to my daily sketchbook pages.