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Little Pieces of Sunshine!

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.

More about me

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About Jenna

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.

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Nothing brings me joy quite like a woodland with ground filled with bluebells 🩵💙💜💚🤍

It always makes the world feel like a more magical place…

#JOYimprinted 
#bluebellwood 
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist 
#scottishartist 
#getoutside 
#inspiredbynature

Nothing brings me joy quite like a woodland with ground filled with bluebells 🩵💙💜💚🤍

It always makes the world feel like a more magical place…

#JOYimprinted
#bluebellwood
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#scottishartist
#getoutside
#inspiredbynature
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Having spent time in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh over the weekend. Old cities both. With old roads and old pathways. Cobbled streets aplenty. Roads of old. 

Having grown up in Aberdeenshire, trips to Aberdeen were punctuated, with our car rumbling along cobbled streets. 

When walking, the higgledy way your feet fell, it was never an easy commute, from place to place… especially with little feet. Tiny shoes. Small footsteps. 

Traversing the cobble stones, made for minding your way. Concentrating. Not necessarily looking down, but just being mindful. 

This weekend, I felt the cities beneath my feet. Aware of the memories that were awoken within my mind. Like moths to a flame, that light and that pull, the memories came front of my mind. Dredged and enlivened. 

The patterns in nature, and in the way townscapes intertwine with the nature that happens to live there. The side by side of man made, man placed… and say, a dandelion or a cherry blossom. Herb Robert in nooks, a Buddleia clinging from a chimney pot. A grassy verge, wandering into cracks in pavement. These juxtaposition of patterns have been inspiration to me, noting in sketchbooks, drawn in pencil. 

But I guess, these cobbles were the first time I was really aware of a difference in the place I was growing up, compared to the place of the busy city scapes that I’d become more accustomed to as I grew older. 

Now, the cobbled streets are more rare, so the finding of them, and the feeling of them, brings back more distant recollections. 

But pattern has been front and foremost in much of my work of late. And maybe… the cobbled memories, cobbled together themselves, into lines placed upon paper…. coloured in with paint and brushes… maybe came from the streets of Aberdeen. Cobbled. In neat rows. 

Side by side. The rumble and the tip toe. The changes in hue and shine. Linear stretches. Diagonals, verticals, horizontals. 

Each cobble placed in context, now a part of who we are. 

Who I am, anyway. 

#JennaMartinLeitchArtist 
#cobbledstreets 
#aberdeen 
#edinburgh 
#JOYimprinted

Having spent time in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh over the weekend. Old cities both. With old roads and old pathways. Cobbled streets aplenty. Roads of old.

Having grown up in Aberdeenshire, trips to Aberdeen were punctuated, with our car rumbling along cobbled streets.

When walking, the higgledy way your feet fell, it was never an easy commute, from place to place… especially with little feet. Tiny shoes. Small footsteps.

Traversing the cobble stones, made for minding your way. Concentrating. Not necessarily looking down, but just being mindful.

This weekend, I felt the cities beneath my feet. Aware of the memories that were awoken within my mind. Like moths to a flame, that light and that pull, the memories came front of my mind. Dredged and enlivened.

The patterns in nature, and in the way townscapes intertwine with the nature that happens to live there. The side by side of man made, man placed… and say, a dandelion or a cherry blossom. Herb Robert in nooks, a Buddleia clinging from a chimney pot. A grassy verge, wandering into cracks in pavement. These juxtaposition of patterns have been inspiration to me, noting in sketchbooks, drawn in pencil.

But I guess, these cobbles were the first time I was really aware of a difference in the place I was growing up, compared to the place of the busy city scapes that I’d become more accustomed to as I grew older.

Now, the cobbled streets are more rare, so the finding of them, and the feeling of them, brings back more distant recollections.

But pattern has been front and foremost in much of my work of late. And maybe… the cobbled memories, cobbled together themselves, into lines placed upon paper…. coloured in with paint and brushes… maybe came from the streets of Aberdeen. Cobbled. In neat rows.

Side by side. The rumble and the tip toe. The changes in hue and shine. Linear stretches. Diagonals, verticals, horizontals.

Each cobble placed in context, now a part of who we are.

Who I am, anyway.

#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#cobbledstreets
#aberdeen
#edinburgh
#JOYimprinted
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On midnight blue, a Garden Tiger Moth… 

Rich in hue and in rich detail also. 

Another new design I look forward to releasing into the wild, moon dancing. 

A nightflyer. 

#JennaMartinLeitchArtist 
#nightflyer 
#nighttime 
#gardentigermoth 
#moongarden 
#daytime 
#JOYimprinted 
#scottishartist

On midnight blue, a Garden Tiger Moth…

Rich in hue and in rich detail also.

Another new design I look forward to releasing into the wild, moon dancing.

A nightflyer.

#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#nightflyer
#nighttime
#gardentigermoth
#moongarden
#daytime
#JOYimprinted
#scottishartist
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Morning dew on grass settled feather. 

🤍

#JOYimprinted 
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist

Morning dew on grass settled feather.

🤍

#JOYimprinted
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
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I found a full fallen blossom yesterday. Laying intact on the grass, petals held fast, within bud. 

I was walking a wee dog at work. Enjoying a few moments of fresh air. Of quiet. No phone calls or busy. 

Just me, and the pup. And a blossom… it turned out. 

Plenty petals lay strewn. Separate and still, some waivering in slight Dundee breeze. Rain yet to fall, the lightness in their entities, could still have been lifted. Carried on air yet again. 

The lightness, I thought. A whole flower, and yet it felt like barely anything. A mere insignificance in weight, yet in beauty, so enchanting. 

We are carried by winds and by ways. Lifted by others. Studied and thought of. Sometimes we fall. Sometimes we are lifted. Sometimes people take the time to think of us, noticing our fragility. Noticing our strength despite that. Sometimes we are aware of our transience and that of those around us. How fast life passes. How separate we can become from others. 

A moment, and in that, so much held. 

A fallen blossom. 

(Although fallen, I hope I shall blossom once more.)

#JOYimprinted 
#blossom 
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist

I found a full fallen blossom yesterday. Laying intact on the grass, petals held fast, within bud.

I was walking a wee dog at work. Enjoying a few moments of fresh air. Of quiet. No phone calls or busy.

Just me, and the pup. And a blossom… it turned out.

Plenty petals lay strewn. Separate and still, some waivering in slight Dundee breeze. Rain yet to fall, the lightness in their entities, could still have been lifted. Carried on air yet again.

The lightness, I thought. A whole flower, and yet it felt like barely anything. A mere insignificance in weight, yet in beauty, so enchanting.

We are carried by winds and by ways. Lifted by others. Studied and thought of. Sometimes we fall. Sometimes we are lifted. Sometimes people take the time to think of us, noticing our fragility. Noticing our strength despite that. Sometimes we are aware of our transience and that of those around us. How fast life passes. How separate we can become from others.

A moment, and in that, so much held.

A fallen blossom.

(Although fallen, I hope I shall blossom once more.)

#JOYimprinted
#blossom
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
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This weekend you will be able to see three of my artworks in the @art.and.nature.collective exhibition at Customs House, Leith. 

The Nature of Art, Edinburgh
25–27 April 2025 | Custom House, Leith
Launch: Friday 25 April, 6–8pm

The Art & Nature Collective is delighted to announce The Nature of Art, Edinburgh, a special exhibition continuing the celebration of our first anniversary. Taking place at Custom House, Leith, from 25–27 April, this event brings together a vibrant selection of works created by more than 30 of our members, as they respond to the natural world. 

Showcasing the diverse talents within our community, the exhibition features over 80 artworks, each offering a unique perspective on nature’s influence on artistic expression. From detailed studies of flora and fauna to abstract interpretations of natural elements, the works on display highlight the creative breadth of the Collective.

Join us for the launch event on Friday 25 April from 6pm - 8pm. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists, explore the exhibition, and celebrate a year of creativity rooted in a shared connection with nature. Open 10am - 5:30pm Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th April.

These two small postcard artworks, “Last Night We Saw The Aurora…” & “…Borealis, Pink & Green in Darkness” will be on show as well as a larger framed work, titled “All Those Shiny Things (A Magpie Stole From Me)”

I hope to visit the exhibition on Sunday, so maybe see you there! 

#JennaMartinLeitchArtist 
#natureinspired 
#inspiredbynature

This weekend you will be able to see three of my artworks in the @art.and.nature.collective exhibition at Customs House, Leith.

The Nature of Art, Edinburgh
25–27 April 2025 | Custom House, Leith
Launch: Friday 25 April, 6–8pm

The Art & Nature Collective is delighted to announce The Nature of Art, Edinburgh, a special exhibition continuing the celebration of our first anniversary. Taking place at Custom House, Leith, from 25–27 April, this event brings together a vibrant selection of works created by more than 30 of our members, as they respond to the natural world.

Showcasing the diverse talents within our community, the exhibition features over 80 artworks, each offering a unique perspective on nature’s influence on artistic expression. From detailed studies of flora and fauna to abstract interpretations of natural elements, the works on display highlight the creative breadth of the Collective.

Join us for the launch event on Friday 25 April from 6pm - 8pm. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists, explore the exhibition, and celebrate a year of creativity rooted in a shared connection with nature. Open 10am - 5:30pm Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th April.

These two small postcard artworks, “Last Night We Saw The Aurora…” & “…Borealis, Pink & Green in Darkness” will be on show as well as a larger framed work, titled “All Those Shiny Things (A Magpie Stole From Me)”

I hope to visit the exhibition on Sunday, so maybe see you there!

#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#natureinspired
#inspiredbynature
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Elephant Hawk Moth 💚🩷💛🤍

Pattern on wing gives scope to let mind allow the pen or paintbrush to flow. To revel in the curve and the swirl, the line and the form. 

Combined with rich and bright colours, joy is painted upon page. 

Art is cathartic to me, a way of working through my life, much like running, my other love. An escapism, but also, a focus. 

This Hawkmoth, I found, resting on pavement beside a main road, on an early morning run earlier this year. 
 
I lifted him gently, studying his wings and body, his delicate legs, and placed him onto the other side of a stone wall to our side. Safe from the traffic, and near to the willow herb of preference. 

A marrying of wonder. A marrying of calm. Inspiration met in moment. 

Art and running, the act of spending time outside, where space to think, lets me form ideas and plans. 

I have been developing new designs back at home in my studio, and I look forward to releasing them all into the wild, for you all to witness. So you too, can study and enjoy, my craft and my artworks. Just like I studied that glorious moth. 

#JOYimprinted 
#elephanthawkmoth 
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist 
#scottishartist 
#getoutside 
#inspiredbynature 
#daytime 
#nighttime

Elephant Hawk Moth 💚🩷💛🤍

Pattern on wing gives scope to let mind allow the pen or paintbrush to flow. To revel in the curve and the swirl, the line and the form.

Combined with rich and bright colours, joy is painted upon page.

Art is cathartic to me, a way of working through my life, much like running, my other love. An escapism, but also, a focus.

This Hawkmoth, I found, resting on pavement beside a main road, on an early morning run earlier this year.

I lifted him gently, studying his wings and body, his delicate legs, and placed him onto the other side of a stone wall to our side. Safe from the traffic, and near to the willow herb of preference.

A marrying of wonder. A marrying of calm. Inspiration met in moment.

Art and running, the act of spending time outside, where space to think, lets me form ideas and plans.

I have been developing new designs back at home in my studio, and I look forward to releasing them all into the wild, for you all to witness. So you too, can study and enjoy, my craft and my artworks. Just like I studied that glorious moth.

#JOYimprinted
#elephanthawkmoth
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#scottishartist
#getoutside
#inspiredbynature
#daytime
#nighttime
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I’ve been working on my newest Ode these last days. 

With words and imagery to reminisce upon last year. Upon the days, the places, the songs and the memories that the year held. 

The birds which lifted my soul. The flight and the energy harnessed. 

Noticings in woodland. Colours that enriched my being, through the joy they brought to my eyes. 

My odes are a series of works, each one different, but with a common thread… 

A hilltop skyline twig, of the place which has held my heart this last year. The song which has whirled through my mind. The bird which felt most ‘of that year’. Yes… but mostly, what they are are like chapters of a book. One singular page, but within that page, multiple stories. Multiple paragraphs and punctuated by birdsong. 

In my mind, I’ve always thought of them as poetic. A short verse. Painted upon paper. 

I look forward to showing you the finished article. ♥️🖤🩶🤍

#JOYimprinted 
#ode 
#skylinetwig 
#bullfinch 
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist

I’ve been working on my newest Ode these last days.

With words and imagery to reminisce upon last year. Upon the days, the places, the songs and the memories that the year held.

The birds which lifted my soul. The flight and the energy harnessed.

Noticings in woodland. Colours that enriched my being, through the joy they brought to my eyes.

My odes are a series of works, each one different, but with a common thread…

A hilltop skyline twig, of the place which has held my heart this last year. The song which has whirled through my mind. The bird which felt most ‘of that year’. Yes… but mostly, what they are are like chapters of a book. One singular page, but within that page, multiple stories. Multiple paragraphs and punctuated by birdsong.

In my mind, I’ve always thought of them as poetic. A short verse. Painted upon paper.

I look forward to showing you the finished article. ♥️🖤🩶🤍

#JOYimprinted
#ode
#skylinetwig
#bullfinch
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
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A Wide Eyed Wonder… 🦉

I always think how lucky I am to have art in my life. To have the ability to place what I imagine in my brain, upon paper. 

A friend told me, recently, that she doesn’t see things in her mind. Someone could explain a something, or a place, or a situation, and she doesn’t see anything in her head when they do. 

I hadn’t realised this was even a ‘thing’. An ability I took for granted, but purely for not realising that the opposite could exist… 

For my mind is rich, and elaborate. I can imagine all sorts and in bright colours. Dim the lights. Envision darkness and nighttime, just as much as daylight and sunlit wonder. 

I can imagine stories and situations, rapidly unfolding events. A vivid imagination… that’s what I’ve always called it. 

I had nightmares frequently, both when I was younger, and also as I’ve been older. Not so much recently, which is miraculous! But the dreams my brain weaves, in those precious hours of sleep, can be something else! 

Whatever the weather, I’m glad of what my brain does. I am glad of the pictures I can then help come to life. Of the stories, I myself can scribe, and place besides them. Enriching the magic that is told. Enlivening the imagery, and the pigment and line that are placed together, so as they are able to speak to you all. 

Keep your wild imaginations just that! Wild, free, hopeful, spirited, far flung and magical! 

It’s a gift I didn’t even know I had… or, perhaps didn’t so much appreciate the luckiness I am to have in my life. 

In my own minds eye. My own wide eyed wonder. 

#JOYimprinted 
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist 
#barnowl 
#wideeyedwonder 
#scottishartist

A Wide Eyed Wonder… 🦉

I always think how lucky I am to have art in my life. To have the ability to place what I imagine in my brain, upon paper.

A friend told me, recently, that she doesn’t see things in her mind. Someone could explain a something, or a place, or a situation, and she doesn’t see anything in her head when they do.

I hadn’t realised this was even a ‘thing’. An ability I took for granted, but purely for not realising that the opposite could exist…

For my mind is rich, and elaborate. I can imagine all sorts and in bright colours. Dim the lights. Envision darkness and nighttime, just as much as daylight and sunlit wonder.

I can imagine stories and situations, rapidly unfolding events. A vivid imagination… that’s what I’ve always called it.

I had nightmares frequently, both when I was younger, and also as I’ve been older. Not so much recently, which is miraculous! But the dreams my brain weaves, in those precious hours of sleep, can be something else!

Whatever the weather, I’m glad of what my brain does. I am glad of the pictures I can then help come to life. Of the stories, I myself can scribe, and place besides them. Enriching the magic that is told. Enlivening the imagery, and the pigment and line that are placed together, so as they are able to speak to you all.

Keep your wild imaginations just that! Wild, free, hopeful, spirited, far flung and magical!

It’s a gift I didn’t even know I had… or, perhaps didn’t so much appreciate the luckiness I am to have in my life.

In my own minds eye. My own wide eyed wonder.

#JOYimprinted
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#barnowl
#wideeyedwonder
#scottishartist
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