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.
So glad my pal @katiebirdiedoes snapped this pic of me and my display on Friday night!
I’ve not been able to attend many events in 2025, so it’s a wee boost to see all my work in one place, and for it all to SING its sunshine song all together!
We are headed into the final week of the school term here, with my girls finishing up for their holidays! Looking forward to some time away, and so lovely to have had a catch up with some of my favourite creatives friends on Friday night @makersmarketfife
Times are hard for us creative folks, we do what we do because we need it in our lives; art, drawing, placing my noticings and imagination upon paper is like a form of therapy and of joy. I can’t imagine my life without it! So I’ll keep working away. Gently and with that joy in my heart, ready to pay it forward to you all in my creations!
I have exhibitions coming up soon, with @funadaydundee and with @art.and.nature.collective and our next @centralfifeartistscollective events are in September. These will whirl around soon enough I’m sure!
In the meantime! If you’re looking for a lovely teacher gift, that’s been made from the heart, and created with a bucketload of love, look no further! I’ll be posting some ideas for you here SOON!!! 🎓✏️📖🚌📝
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We are OPEN! ☀️
Midsummer @makersmarketfife is ON! Here until 9pm tonight!
Lots to see and do!
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TONIGHT!!!! The Midsummer @makersmarketfife will be happening 6.30-9pm in the 252 Hall, Betson Street, Markinch, Fife.
We would love to see you there! A very talented group of Fife based creatives, with food and drinks available. Late night opening in @the_curator_markinch also.
I’ll be there with my own display, of work, inspired by the joy I find by spending time in our natural world (and in my big imagination!), and I’d love if you stopped by and had a browse, a blether, and maybe even a bosie!!
Let’s celebrate wonderful local talent in our wee village!
Here’s hoping the sun has his hat on for it! ☀️
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Small but mighty!
Fiercely making sure her voice is heard from the hedgerows…
I feel a kinship to the wren.
And so I draw them. Over and over again.
A favourite to place upon paper, a favourite to write of. To watch from windows, and notice within the woodland.
This little wren will be with me THIS Friday at @makersmarketfife 6.30-9pm 252 Hall, Betson Street, Markinch.
Come along. Bring your friends. Let’s create an evening of summer joy!
The wrens will be cheering us on, I know it!
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The found tiny feather game was strong this morning on my run! 🪶🪶
What little beauties.
A beautiful elegant crow feather was also collected, hiding here also, held in my same hand.
These are the prettiest I’ve collected in a long while.
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We Dig
We Sow
We Plant
We Grow
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I’ll have a new print of this image with me this Friday, at @makersmarketfife Markinch 252 Hall, 6.30-9pm
It’s a fresh and floral image made in beautiful watercolour tones. Sure to brighten up any corner of your home.
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Even the daisies weren’t awake yet when I went for my run this morning. The dawn of the Summer Solstice, and the world was shrouded in a mist, so cool and quietening, the world just felt so serene around me.
Alone and alive. Aware of it and with clarity of spirit. I felt relieved at this run. Knowing my fitness is again increasing, and enlivened by this simple fact. I don’t ask for much… but this, I need to be so.
With the flowers still closed, petals fast asleep. The birds had been awake for hours. Heralding the daylight beginning. The longest day. And I was there to witness it. With them.
I’ve stayed within this day. Those daisies have since opened. They’ve since closed. Their petals have been drenched in the heaviest of rain, and dried once more with brightest sunshine.
Daylight. Lit up.
We continue.
The daisies open. The daisies close. Days eyes.
The Summer Solstice.
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Today is the Summer Solstice! What better day to tell you about my next in person event!
This Friday! 6.30-9pm! The most gorgeous collection of creatives will be at the 252 Hall, Betson Street, Markinch for our @makersmarketfife Midsummer Market! ☀️
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I’m so looking forward to being part of our next Markinch event! Midsummer @makersmarketfife next Friday evening.
My new range of brooches will be there with me, gracing my display with their brightly coloured plumage and patterns.
Hopefully, the sun will be shining for us!!
It’s sure to be a lovely event, with the loveliest selection of local makers, cake, refreshments, food, kids crafts, and a nice garden to sit in in the sun.
Friday 27 June, 6.30 - 9pm
252 Hall, Betson Street, Markinch
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“Do You Like Butter…?”
I drew this artwork from a photo of my our eldest, from when she was about 3.
She had walked towards me, a buttercup shining in hand, and raised it toward my chin.
“Do you like butter Mummy?” She asked
A snapshot moment. In mind as well as in memory. Light and sunshine. The sunshine of her, and the buttercup itself, lit up.
Our eldest is now soon to be heading up to high school. New adventures await, and with trepidation, the adventure will continue.
Resilience ever present, our daughters prove themselves time and again, to be capable of great things. Brave and kind. Funny and full of mischief. Beauties the pair of them, in spirit and in face. I love them. Wholeheartedly.
Parenthood can be so hard to navigate. And currently, I take care of my own parent also, with my Dad becoming more frail. The duality of life is ever present.
So, these captured moments of their childhood, which, although not that long ago, feel like another lifetime sometimes.
Collected buttercups. They’ll always make me think of her. Likewise, clovers make me think of my mum and our guinea pigs. Red clovers of my dad, and the Glen. Orange and yellow poppies, of a friend yet to meet.
Nature allows the intricacy of life to play in our minds, just as it plays on the breeze. Blooms.
“Do you like butter…?”
I certainly do… 🌼
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When I run in the woods, it’s always hard for me to just run past all the tiny details that my eyes always flit to. Notice. Take in.
Yesterday these tiny forget-me-nots shone in the undergrowth. Like tender kindnesses, the blues, pinks, yellows and whites, punctuated the leafy woodland floor.
I let myself be halted. I let myself lean in and take in their delicate presence.
Life can pass you by, and with the urgency to drop your paces, it could easily be gambled, that somehow, you’ll witness these moments again. You can stop another time.
But maybe next time, the light won’t make the colours sing the same. Maybe next time, the petals will have faded, past their best.
And so… I stop. I notice and I take the time to let them rest in my brain. Let my eyes soak up their details. Take photos to remember.
Forget-me-nots…. The same can be said of so many pieces of life.
Do not chance the fact you won’t forget them…. Because you might.
Don’t let it be so… 💛
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