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.
Seems nice not really changed much… in another found school jotter, likely from when I was about 7 or 8. Pictures drawn and coloured in also. A barn, an owl (I’ve been drawing barn owls of late) a bird and some paper…
Parts of us persist through the span of our life. Evolving, but unchanged in essence.
Our interests, our personalities, the intrinsic ‘us’ of ourselves. The layers which add up to who we are.
I’ll have new works on show, framed originals and new prints, at @sconepalacegardenfair the 30th & 31st June.
Owls feature, (Barn Owls in particular) as do birds. They’re mostly all works on paper… they all fly on wings.
We look forward to seeing you there!
🦉
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
Seems nice not really changed much… in another found school jotter, likely from when I was about 7 or 8. Pictures drawn and coloured in also. A barn, an owl (I’ve been drawing barn owls of late) a bird and some paper…
Parts of us persist through the span of our life. Evolving, but unchanged in essence.
Our interests, our personalities, the intrinsic ‘us’ of ourselves. The layers which add up to who we are.
I’ll have new works on show, framed originals and new prints, at @sconepalacegardenfair the 30th & 31st June.
Owls feature, (Barn Owls in particular) as do birds. They’re mostly all works on paper… they all fly on wings.
We look forward to seeing you there!
🦉
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
This week has seen a Flower Moon, full and glorious, in the brightest spring sky, grace our lives.
A moon that shines for the flowers that are blooming. The world becoming inhabited again by growth, and by renewal. The ground transforming into meadow, into leafy hedgerow, into trees caped in fizz of green and woodland flowers drenched in blue, and in white.
Other colours besides, so much beauty there on show. And the moon, in our sky, has shone upon them.
I look to the moon often. Thin sliver of crescent, to full and wide circumference. To the gibbous, the waxing… and the waning. Sometimes to be seen hanging in day sky, still to be seen.
We stand below, and the plants of our gardens surround us. Keeping us company during those beautiful nights.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#flowermoon
This week has seen a Flower Moon, full and glorious, in the brightest spring sky, grace our lives.
A moon that shines for the flowers that are blooming. The world becoming inhabited again by growth, and by renewal. The ground transforming into meadow, into leafy hedgerow, into trees caped in fizz of green and woodland flowers drenched in blue, and in white.
Other colours besides, so much beauty there on show. And the moon, in our sky, has shone upon them.
I look to the moon often. Thin sliver of crescent, to full and wide circumference. To the gibbous, the waxing… and the waning. Sometimes to be seen hanging in day sky, still to be seen.
We stand below, and the plants of our gardens surround us. Keeping us company during those beautiful nights.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#flowermoon
They’re back, and they’re BLOOMING! Bigger than the size of my hand! Still mesmerized by the purple pollen 💜🐝
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#giantpoppies
#JOYimprinted
#purplepollen
They’re back, and they’re BLOOMING! Bigger than the size of my hand! Still mesmerized by the purple pollen 💜🐝
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#giantpoppies
#JOYimprinted
#purplepollen
A few weeks ago, a lovely friend had been beach finding, and we spoke of Cowrie shells. My Mum loved a cowrie shell, and I’ve never had the pleasure of finding one.
Amanda, the very next day, went out searching for one, just for me. She scoured the beach to no avail, but at the last, a lovely stranger and her dog helped her find one. Just as she was away to leave the beach in Aberystwyth where she lives.
She sent me the little shell, within the safety of a little box. Along with another, of a different variety, a piece of worn sea china, and piece of cool blue sea glass. Sea worn each one. Sea travelled. And sent in post… all the way to me.
A letter inscribed besides on a card painted by a friend. Of the very same beach in her home town.
A mermaid upon it. The sea glass, a ‘mermaids tear’.
Friends connect from across the internet ether, and I feel so blessed she chose to do so. To take the time to make the gesture, and to handwrite me those words. Also, to package up that tiny box of treasures.
It felt like a door to light and to kindness, opening that little box. My heart was joyed and I told her so.
I’ve the little box on my studio desk now. Amanda keeping me company, from afar as I draw.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
A few weeks ago, a lovely friend had been beach finding, and we spoke of Cowrie shells. My Mum loved a cowrie shell, and I’ve never had the pleasure of finding one.
Amanda, the very next day, went out searching for one, just for me. She scoured the beach to no avail, but at the last, a lovely stranger and her dog helped her find one. Just as she was away to leave the beach in Aberystwyth where she lives.
She sent me the little shell, within the safety of a little box. Along with another, of a different variety, a piece of worn sea china, and piece of cool blue sea glass. Sea worn each one. Sea travelled. And sent in post… all the way to me.
A letter inscribed besides on a card painted by a friend. Of the very same beach in her home town.
A mermaid upon it. The sea glass, a ‘mermaids tear’.
Friends connect from across the internet ether, and I feel so blessed she chose to do so. To take the time to make the gesture, and to handwrite me those words. Also, to package up that tiny box of treasures.
It felt like a door to light and to kindness, opening that little box. My heart was joyed and I told her so.
I’ve the little box on my studio desk now. Amanda keeping me company, from afar as I draw.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
One day, when I grow up, I’ll be a conker…
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#conker
#horsechestnut
#JOYimprinted
One day, when I grow up, I’ll be a conker…
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#conker
#horsechestnut
#JOYimprinted
Been working away steadily on a something new the last few days. I mentioned I’m developing a range of new ways of working. Media and papers, I’m not so accustomed to, but have worked in over the course of my life. In a way, it feels like a bit of a fresh start. It feels freeing, and it feels exciting!
With my Dad being poorly these last months, I’ve taken a bit of a step back, time wise, from my artwork, but in my head I’ve had ideas trickling in, and staying for keeps. I’ve ruminated and I’ve imagined.
So it’s been so lovely to be back in my studio, creating a new body of work in recent weeks, which, like all of my work, is so heart led.
These works feel like they come from the stories my Dad has told me since I was little. Tales of his journeys and his travels. The time he spent with Mum, and from afar. Letters written and memories made. His garden at Tifty, and his love of nature all intertwined.
He had always spoken so richly about certain aspects of his life. He still speaks of his sailing days a great deal. His mind likes to travel there , even now… and when it settles he speaks of home. Of his hopes for his garden… He speaks of Glen Lyon. He speaks of his childhood.
I’ll craft them somehow, upon paper. To settle for keeps. To make real of these ideas and to capture them, like moths to a light. They’ll all gather together.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#moths
#mydad
Been working away steadily on a something new the last few days. I mentioned I’m developing a range of new ways of working. Media and papers, I’m not so accustomed to, but have worked in over the course of my life. In a way, it feels like a bit of a fresh start. It feels freeing, and it feels exciting!
With my Dad being poorly these last months, I’ve taken a bit of a step back, time wise, from my artwork, but in my head I’ve had ideas trickling in, and staying for keeps. I’ve ruminated and I’ve imagined.
So it’s been so lovely to be back in my studio, creating a new body of work in recent weeks, which, like all of my work, is so heart led.
These works feel like they come from the stories my Dad has told me since I was little. Tales of his journeys and his travels. The time he spent with Mum, and from afar. Letters written and memories made. His garden at Tifty, and his love of nature all intertwined.
He had always spoken so richly about certain aspects of his life. He still speaks of his sailing days a great deal. His mind likes to travel there , even now… and when it settles he speaks of home. Of his hopes for his garden… He speaks of Glen Lyon. He speaks of his childhood.
I’ll craft them somehow, upon paper. To settle for keeps. To make real of these ideas and to capture them, like moths to a light. They’ll all gather together.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#moths
#mydad
A right ‘Bobby-Dazzler of a Bullfinch’! A bellowing of them in fact!
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#bullfinch
#bellowingofbullfinches
#scottishartist
A right ‘Bobby-Dazzler of a Bullfinch’! A bellowing of them in fact!
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#bullfinch
#bellowingofbullfinches
#scottishartist
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Dandelion clocks are just so very beautiful.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#dandelionclocl
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Dandelion clocks are just so very beautiful.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#dandelionclocl
Wild garlic grows to carpet the woodland floor nearby where we live. Its aroma fills the air and the flowers shine like cosmos twinkling white upon the green.
I never take for granted the place where we live. Woods right upon our doorstep and all the joys that go hand in hand with such a place.
I wake to birdsong every morning, and it’s peaceful. So peaceful.
Those morning moments and woodland wanders give me space to breathe and a moment for me. To decompress as I begin the day. Often head out for a run or a walk. A cuppa at the kitchen table. A cuddle with a cat.
Space to be grateful and sit with my thoughts and feelings. Alone but surrounded, by the world around me.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#wildgarlic
#woodlandwanders
#getoutside
Wild garlic grows to carpet the woodland floor nearby where we live. Its aroma fills the air and the flowers shine like cosmos twinkling white upon the green.
I never take for granted the place where we live. Woods right upon our doorstep and all the joys that go hand in hand with such a place.
I wake to birdsong every morning, and it’s peaceful. So peaceful.
Those morning moments and woodland wanders give me space to breathe and a moment for me. To decompress as I begin the day. Often head out for a run or a walk. A cuppa at the kitchen table. A cuddle with a cat.
Space to be grateful and sit with my thoughts and feelings. Alone but surrounded, by the world around me.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#wildgarlic
#woodlandwanders
#getoutside
Stacking and sorting. Folding and wrapping.
I love the colours on my new teatowels. Artist designed homewares are in MY opinion the best kind. Imagery created with love and imagination on show.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#artistdesignedhomewares
Stacking and sorting. Folding and wrapping.
I love the colours on my new teatowels. Artist designed homewares are in MY opinion the best kind. Imagery created with love and imagination on show.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#artistdesignedhomewares
Bluest of skies and a swallow resting on telegraph wire. Stopped a moment on my early morning dander run, to stand stock still and watch him. Early birds, the pair of us.
“Things are going to change, I can feel it!” Said the words in the song. Felt it. Holding onto it.
Onwards! 💛
If you’re around and about in Dundee today on YOUR early morning rambles, pop into @maggiesdundee for @makersformaggies. It’ll be well worth the wander.
#JOYimprinted
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#swallows
#getoutside
#bethechange
#artistssupportingartists
#scottishartist
Bluest of skies and a swallow resting on telegraph wire. Stopped a moment on my early morning dander run, to stand stock still and watch him. Early birds, the pair of us.
“Things are going to change, I can feel it!” Said the words in the song. Felt it. Holding onto it.
Onwards! 💛
If you’re around and about in Dundee today on YOUR early morning rambles, pop into @maggiesdundee for @makersformaggies. It’ll be well worth the wander.
#JOYimprinted
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#swallows
#getoutside
#bethechange
#artistssupportingartists
#scottishartist
Yesterday morning, in the quiet of my home, just after everyone had left for school… I sat down and handtinted these new giclée prints, ‘All Those Shiny Things (A Magpie Stole From Me)’
AquaBronze glinting in the morning light. My studio is on the side of our home in shadow of a morning, but still, the light captured and sparkle was on show.
A gentle and calming process.
Followed by a drive up to work in Dundee (to my other job as an RVN) and a very late shift, with anaesthetic on very sick pup stretching late into the evening.
Two very different sides to my life. One in contrast to the other. One filled with noise and people and busy and trauma. Hectic days, punctuated by laughter and by blethers. Caring for the animals of Dundee.
Then here, in my studio. Just me. Always. Quietly working on projects. A balancing act it feels. A ying to the yang of life.
My life. Full of treasures. Full of shiny things. Full of contemplative moments. Filled to the brim with love.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#magpiesnest
#ScottishArtist
Yesterday morning, in the quiet of my home, just after everyone had left for school… I sat down and handtinted these new giclée prints, ‘All Those Shiny Things (A Magpie Stole From Me)’
AquaBronze glinting in the morning light. My studio is on the side of our home in shadow of a morning, but still, the light captured and sparkle was on show.
A gentle and calming process.
Followed by a drive up to work in Dundee (to my other job as an RVN) and a very late shift, with anaesthetic on very sick pup stretching late into the evening.
Two very different sides to my life. One in contrast to the other. One filled with noise and people and busy and trauma. Hectic days, punctuated by laughter and by blethers. Caring for the animals of Dundee.
Then here, in my studio. Just me. Always. Quietly working on projects. A balancing act it feels. A ying to the yang of life.
My life. Full of treasures. Full of shiny things. Full of contemplative moments. Filled to the brim with love.
#JennaMartinLeitchArtist
#JOYimprinted
#magpiesnest
#ScottishArtist
