Welcome to my website!
My name is Jenna Martin Leitch and Iโm 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 โhappyโ 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.โจโจThrough written word, drawn line, and painted hue; I make sure the magic is remembered and the JOY I FEEL is paid forward.
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. โBrighter Mailโ if you like!
Cards are the most lovely way to send the light, WITH love, to those we hold dear.
I still send Christmas cardsโฆ many donโt 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 etherโฆ but, a mantle festooned with messages of love, with pictures upon them that โreminded usโ 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.
Theyโd 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 Mumโs Christmas Cactus ๐ธ๐ต
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 joyโฆ 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 (thereโs reason Iโm 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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Iโm looking forward to a day in my studio today.
Iโve some drawings Iโve had in my head, and Iโm itching to get them on paper.
This Friday Iโll 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, Iโll 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! Itโs the quiet moments that mean we can deal with the busy, and the โpeople-yโ ness of some parts of life I feel!! ๐
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 thereโฆ to here.
And back again.
Patterns placed upon paper to recognise the magic. To try to tell of it. Layers and layers.
Iโve 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.
Arthurโs 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.
A week today! @makersmarketfife
Our most festive of evenings will take place at the 252 Hall, Betson Street, Markinch next Friday 14th November 6.30pm to 9pm.
An evening sure to be a cracker! Lots of great presents, stocking fillers, and food and drinks available to warm your cockles!
Iโll have this yearโs โodeโ with me. A bullfinch flying above a lichen crusted twig, in shape of wonderful Normanโs Law!
Iโve been pondering next yearโs ode these last few weeks. Each one is in honour of the year prior, so itโll be of 2025. I know the hill that will be depictedโฆ Iโve chosen my favourite song lyric of the year, the one that Iโve sung in my head, or listened to on runs the most. Iโm yet to choose which bird will be depictedโฆ. But Iโve a fair idea. ๐๐๐ค
Hope to see you there!
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Candles have been a source of both comfort and inspiration in these recent dark days.
Small flickering beacons of warmth, amongst a period of my life that has been hard to navigate.
Hard but able, Iโve found myself working systematically through my days. Ticking things off lists. Doing what needs done.
Yet alsoโฆ finding magic.
Magic lives in the darkest places too. It makes even the most insignificant moment or event, feel meant. Feel gifted.
A state of fight or flight, on my part, it seems has been ever present; for months and months, life as it is, has felt tentative. Uneasy and intangible.
Somehow, the foundations, and the foothold, have felt unstable, the ground shifting. Tectonic plates of normality, left on fragile planes. Ready to shift at any given moment.
And so, we find solace, in the now. The light that shines. The hand on hand. The smiles between quiet. The โlots loveโ and the questions of my children.
The things that are controllable, even, have sometimes come unstuck. Running, the gym, healthy meals, even they have sometimes felt too much. But we go back to them, like time honoured life skill. And they pull us back to the present as much as the candlelight. The ME in it all.
Itโs a lot, the sandwich generation, Iโm told I am part of. The custodian of the care of both my father and my children. Required so much so, at either end of the spectrum of age.
What a privilege. It is hard. But it is a gift in turn. That I can. And I continue to.
We rest on the light. Warm. Inviting. Mesmerizing. Like moths to a flame, we seek it out. We harness it in our stories and our art.
Thatโs the hope anywayโฆ
A Hope Candle.
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I spend much of my life stood by the edges of football pitches.
Bursting with pride and so grateful to be able to watch both our girls strive for something they are both so passionate about.
We have instilled this drive, in our own pursuits. Art, music, running, the care of animals, friendships, kindness. A drive to not just be one thing, but to urge a want and a hope that we can have more strings to our bow.
Finding that resilience, and strength within, to step into a public place, and do what you love the most, takes passion and braveness.
I feel it at markets, I feel it in clinics at work at the vets, I feel it as much when I step into the gym as I do standing at a start line of a big run. Each step doesnโt come easyโฆ but each step is taken nevertheless.
A noticer, Iโve taken moments to see the way shadow changes colours. A depth of tone that only is seen if we really focus in on it. Life has variation, within our everyday. Patterns and geometry that can add to the wonder.
I see a kind of art in pitch side places. It proves inspiration in itself. Proving no part of life is truly separate from the other.
Each part just another facet.
Each part fueling passion as much as the next.
Thereโs magic in thatโฆ
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First sale of the weekend was VERY special for me.
Iโve never had โmy wordsโ as the actual item someone could purchase. Could never quite figure how best to present or put them into the world as a tangible thingโฆ
I wrote a poem, and I printed it in blue.
I placed it on my display.
The people soaked it up, brought tears to their eyes, warmth to their demeanour. They rested into it, and they celebrated its beauty. Telling me. Purchasing not just one, but multiples. To keep. To gift. To share with the ones they love. It turned out to be my very best seller of the whole weekend!
Every time goosebumps. Heart filled on my part, and a glow, a light, within.
My last sale of Saturday was an Elephant Hawk Moth brooch. Drawn to the light, it flew away to its forever home.
First sale of Sunday was a Cloudy Blackbird brooch. A repeat collector of my creations. She purchased it to cluster amongst the others she has chosen.
My last sale of @eastneukopenstudios Christmas Art & Craft Market, was โA Hopeful Soulโ bluetit greeting card, with a brooch to match. Again a repeat buyer, who chose these for her nearest and dearest. A lover of bluetits, their very favourite.
Each purchase a joy. For both myself and those who chose to spend their precious pennies on my creations.
Thank you so much for every one.
I promise to continue making beautiful things, with my heart very much on my sleeve. For it seems to show.
Onwards.
Next up we have @makersmarketfife on Friday 14th November, 252 Memorial Hall, Betson St, Markinch. 6.30-9pm.
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Spotted this little soul on my run this afternoon.
The most autumnal of days. Bluster and leaves in swirl. Muddy paths, slip slidey beneath feet. Still, all done and glad of some gentle time outdoors, in the elements. Space to be, and think, and strive.
Chatted to some dogs, chatted to some dog owners (always the second thought!) Ticked off a couple miles and feel better for it.
On my slow walk homewards, atop a dry stane dyke a conglomeration of fungi!
Clustered, as if backs to me, in fear and in solace, cooried in, to the equally as fearful, mother of the group. Wide eyed and hugging them tight.
The guardian of them allโฆ a safe place to cluster in from the relative storm surrounding their tiny selves.
Iโve been told, Iโm a safe place. At work, in life, a place for folks to go, for comfort and strength.
What a complimentโฆ I feel, I hope, it to be true. In moments, I recognize my own affinity to be the lighthouse, the beacon, the safety in the storm for others. Just like this mushroom in situ. Equally a safe place.
This weekend reaffirming who I am. So grateful for all the visitors and other artists and makers at @eastneukopenstudios who chose my creations for their own. To gift and to love. To enjoy.
Itโs such a privilege that Iโll never take for granted. I know times are tough, but itโs such a comfort, to know some choose things I have made, as the gift their loved ones will receive. Something from my heart, from my imagination. My stories.
Thereโs still magic in this wild, and somewhat scary, world. If we choose to see it. If we choose to welcome it inโฆ
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Day 2 of @eastneukopenstudios Christmas Art & Craft Market at @bowhousefife
Itโs sunny outside, but chilly nevertheless, so Iโve donned my beauty of a head wrap and neck scarf combo by the very talented @lyndseycurrietextiles to keep me cosy (and hopefully stylish!) for the duration!) ๐ค๐๐
Here until 4 pm today!
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