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.
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.
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!
I’ll have this year’s ‘ode’ with me. A bullfinch flying above a lichen crusted twig, in shape of wonderful Norman’s Law!
I’ve been pondering next year’s ode these last few weeks. Each one is in honour of the year prior, so it’ll be of 2025. I know the hill that will be depicted… I’ve chosen my favourite song lyric of the year, the one that I’ve sung in my head, or listened to on runs the most. I’m yet to choose which bird will be depicted…. But I’ve a fair idea. 💚💛🤍
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, I’ve found myself working systematically through my days. Ticking things off lists. Doing what needs done.
Yet also… 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 ‘lots love’ 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.
It’s a lot, the sandwich generation, I’m 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.
That’s the hope anyway…
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 doesn’t come easy… but each step is taken nevertheless.
A noticer, I’ve 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.
There’s magic in that…
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First sale of the weekend was VERY special for me.
I’ve never had ‘my words’ as the actual item someone could purchase. Could never quite figure how best to present or put them into the world as a tangible thing…
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 ‘A Hopeful Soul’ 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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