Portfolio
A series about how children in state care were forcibly separated from their Holy Madonna and had to bond with random infants
Jimmy Groen | 2021-2024
SERIES: "Queer soft rebels"
Queer identity starts in childhood. In a series of portraits, iconic use of colors and symbols demonstrate the large diversity behind the facade of the 'common child'
Jimmy Groen Tim, Alex | 2025-2026
SERIES:"They are everywhere but nobody knows who they are"
Marginalized, voiceless people are everywhere, yet nobody knows their stories. Tim and Alex draw everyday scenes in which they appear.
Drawing the landscape, creating small moments of freedom
Since 2021, Tim and Alex make work together with Jimmy, in a special category: mixed ages and mixed identity
Drawings created by Jimmy in dialogue with the poetry of Lennart Willems — outsider‑leaning, intuitive and close to the marginalized.
Young boys portraits based upon the classical world
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Large drawings in pastel about emotions
Landscapes in different materials and techniques
Climate change, human influences: the leaves show us the impact of our actions. The trees become susceptible to disease. Leaves fallen in the summer of 2023, in ink and pastel
Watercolor drawings based upon the Arab world
Jimmy Groen | 2024-2025