Welcome to my website!
My name is Jenna Martin Leitch and I’m an artist, illustrator and writer from Fife, Scotland.
My work is inspired by the treasures I find, in my everyday life and in the natural world. The joy they bring to me. The “happy” they make me feel.
I collect things; In my pockets, through my eyes, with my mind, and in my heart. The things we have lost. The things we have found. The sum of our parts. Through written word, drawn line, and painted hue; I make sure the magic is remembered and the JOY I FEEL is paid forward.
We touch the lives of others.
Unknowingly we can change how others think. Enhance what they notice. Make them cherish things they hadn’t really thought of, or perceived, before.
We can bring magic, where before there was none. Bring light to the darkness; and show ways of being that sow intrigue into their everyday.
We can, by very thread of who we are, stitch wonder into the unassuming. We can, whisper hope, where before was an underlying, or sometimes overlying, sadness.
I wholeheartedly believe, our presence can bring change… bring solace… and bring a gift of noticing, heart, empathy and essence of spirit. To some, who without even realising, need it the most.
Parts of us, can go on to somehow keep achieving, in hidden ways, amongst the lives of others. Our values. Our sayings. Our idiosyncrasies become intrinsic.
In tiny microcosmic increments. An otherness. An also.
An always.
Like dust upon their surfaces. Ever present. Dancing in sunlight.
Intertwined. Interconnected. Interspersed.
Indeterminately.
The music playing on.
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Light as lighthouse…
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I have drawn many candles over time. As a child, an intricately melted one which sat upon our kitchen table.
Whilst at school for studies and the same at art college. Still lives set out upon canvas.
Again, more recently, a little me, warming her hands, facing up towards the flame.
Hope lives in lingering candlelight. The warmth bestowed. The imagination being given time to settle upon the flame. Watching it dance in the darkness.
I was speaking just the other day, of a power cut. More lengthy than most of recent times… where it felt like our little family had the time to stop and just BE together. No distractions. Only a candle sat upon our table, and us sat around it, chatting. Drawing. It was lovely.
I like peace and quiet. In fact… I’d go as far as to say I love it. It gives me space in my head, and the world feels less cluttered… more content. Peaceful, even with all the usual chitter chatter of family and of home.
So last night, as stories played out upon our television, I sat in our front room, with candles a-flame. Their delicate fragrances captured by the rooms four walls. Floral and calming.
And at the end, as I blew them out, my daughter and I watched even the smoke trail dance in shadow upon the wall.
Mesmerizing. Like a story being written in space and in time.
Meaning and moments. Lives gone by. Lives which never had the chance to be…
Somehow, we live for them all now. In our own lives. And in our own light.
I lit a candle last night.
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“Joy and Grief are Flatmates”
I wrote down some words that came into my head over my breakfast cup of coffee this morning.
They felt right for today, and I guess it tells of where I am just now in my own life.
Sending love to whoever they connect with.
It’s a poem, and it mostly rhymes, something I’ve never tried or felt to do before, but it seemed to fit today.
Jen x
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First sale of the night last night! One of my ‘Moon Garden’ Organic Cotton Teatowels. A present for the purchaser, to give to her daughters to then gift her it back, for her own Christmas! 🌕🌿🍃🌸✨
Last sale of the night, a selection of birdie button badges, one to gift, and also for the purchaser to keep to wear herself! 🕊️🦉🪿🪺
A favourite sale of the night, my ‘Feathers Surrounded 2023’ Fine Art Giclée print. Special because, one of the feathers (the little yellow one) was gifted to me by the daughter of the purchasers! I painted it in Japanese watercolour to save it for posterity, and there it shall live evermore. On paper, and hopefully on one of the walls in their home. 🪺🪹🪶💛
My husband and my littlest daughter also visited me last night at the event. Which was a gift in itself! 🎁
Honestly, what a truly lovely evening and event @makersmarketfife
Thanks for having me @katiebirdiedoes and @skfurniturefife 🎄
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Last night saw a lovely group of artists, designers and makers meet at the 252 Hall in my local village Markinch, for our festive @makersmarketfife
A hop, skip and a jump from my house to there, and I was surrounded with some of my favourite people. Both in the space, and with the visitors who came along.
Lucky enough to be placed, just in front of a mural, which, let’s be honest, felt like I was pretty much in my ‘natural habitat’! 😅 Surrounded by woodland souls and birds in flight. Just perfect!
So many bosies, lovely chats, gentle questions of how my Dad is doing, talks of running and of life in general.
One particular blether had us all in stitches crying laughing, which was so needed, and felt like a pure tonic of medicine for the soul.
Nights like last night, reinforce all the reasons why I create the art I do, and the love and words people spoke of it, was really quite moving.
As I’ve said before, I never take it for granted, and I’ll always hope that what I create, will pay the JOY I feel for the natural world, and life in general, forward.
Ta so much to all who came along. You’re a braw bunch. 💛
Jen x
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Tonight I will have some of my range of cards along with me at the 252 Hall, Betson Street, Markinch, 6.30-9pm for our festive @makersmarketfife
The designs I created this year speak of the light and the love that exists in our worlds. ‘Brighter Mail’ if you like!
Cards are the most lovely way to send the light, WITH love, to those we hold dear.
I still send Christmas cards… many don’t these days it seems. My Mum always did so, somehow it helps to keep her love of correspondence and connection alive. Messages mostly now are instead sent via the internet ether… but, a mantle festooned with messages of love, with pictures upon them that ‘reminded us’ of someone, surely they hold more meaning in their very essence?
I certainly think so.
This range were a thoughtful and magical way to add to my very own brand of JOYimprinted.
They’d love to fly home with you!
And then perhaps onwards. So as to pay that joy, love, light, and magic, forward!
Hope to see you later!
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Always a treat! Always feels like a surprise! In bloom slightly earlier this year than last.
My Mum’s Christmas Cactus 🌸🌵
What a beauty.
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Brooches, to be worn, and to be gifted, as a symbol of being drawn to, and to be of, the light.
A moth, and birds. They have been my muse for so very long now. The warmth of a flame. The light of the moon in the darkness. The way the sun hits our face. So do, these glorious creatures, feel that same pull.
These designs are from some of my favourite artworks of 2025.
A year that has seen me search for the light within my own days, perhaps more than other years.
Always one to try to focus on the positives, to look for and talk of joy… this year has pushed me to my limits in so many ways.
And still, I continue to speak of brighter days, and the warmth that lives in friendship, kindness and those we love the most.
Find me, these, and my collection, in another market close to home (there’s reason I’m not straying far this year)
252 Hall, Betson St, Markinch. This Friday 14th Nov, 6.30-9pm.
Come find my own range of JOYimprinted, and help me pay it forward. With a whole bunch of festive cheer besides.
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I’m looking forward to a day in my studio today.
I’ve some drawings I’ve had in my head, and I’m itching to get them on paper.
This Friday I’ll be at the 252 Hall, Betson Street, Markinch, a local market to me, and hoping to see many happy and familiar faces. 6.30-9pm, I’ll be there with my range of original artworks, prints, greetings cards, accessories and homewares.
Quiet time in my studio, is the way I craft that energy and love into my life. To make sure I can bring my best self into the day to day, as well as those big and new situations life throws at us! It’s the quiet moments that mean we can deal with the busy, and the ‘people-y’ ness of some parts of life I feel!! 😅
Like filling our cup, we needs to make sure to fill our own cup first and foremost.
First stop today, is a trip to the gym, and a short run to buoy me up with some precious endorphins.
What plans do you have for today? Tell me, how do you fill YOUR cup with the energy and joy you need to carve your own life and path?
Hope to see you Friday!
Onwards.
Jen x
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A celebration of all the letters that have flown across oceans. Posted in a letterbox, stamped and postmarked.
Letters handwritten by my Mum, to my Dad. From my Dad to my Mum. From my Mum to my Granny.
Letters posed in envelopes, telling stories of simple day to days. Of adventures and of gentle moments alike.
All collected together, and like treasures, they hold such wonder. Glinting with time and memory faceted into every held corner.
The House Martins migrating. The to and the fro. From one to the other. From there… to here.
And back again.
Patterns placed upon paper to recognise the magic. To try to tell of it. Layers and layers.
I’ve collaged cut vintage pages, drawn upon, and placed besides old cloud telling envelopes. Linear tracings of skies and of flight.
New works, that I hope to expand upon, in different ways, and to further sing the song of lives richly lived.
And rich in love.
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An early beach run for a Sunday morning.
I needed to see the sea.
I needed to run in the sea air, and feel it fill my lungs.
I needed peace and quiet.
I needed to see birds. I saw crows, and pied wagtails, oystercatchers, black headed gulls, herring gulls.
I needed to tick it off.
I needed a space where I could just be.
Arthur’s Seat in the Edinburgh distance. The Firth of Forth stretching for sunlit miles.
Clouds and rain in passing grey. Depth of tone. Shadows and light.
It was beautiful. And it was needed.
