![Painting, Feet Study, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196388_1_grid.jpg)
Presentation
Jennnifer deGroot is an oil-based, figurative painter working out of Vancouver Island. At a young age, she began creating art as a means of nurturing her blossoming sense of personal identity within the microcosm of her restrictive, religious home and social life.
Jennifer poured works of Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist artists, and began to teach herself painting technique. Through years of study, she has built a body of work that is closely informed by her personal experience. It is an exploration of sexuality, gender, and identity expression and, alternately, a clear rejection and refutation of repression.
Exaggerated skin tones contrast against starkly blank backgrounds, bringing the many facets of humanity and vulnerability in her subjects to life - a simple way to bring focus to the figure. What seems awkward, is revealed to be strong. What feels vulnerable, is secretly armor. Mundane moments of exposure become a remarkable window into the beauty of a secret life lived. Jennifer's paintings are a celebration of the beautiful gray areas in a sometimes hard-line black & white world.
![Painting, Feet Study, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196388_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Reading Freud, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196383_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sinner's Prayer, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196390_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Deserving of a Story, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196382_1_grid.jpg)
Deserving of a Story
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 102 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,603
![Painting, Kiss It Off Me, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196392_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nothing Hurts Anymore Pt.2, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196391_1_grid.jpg)
Nothing Hurts Anymore Pt.2
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 61 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,031
![Painting, Earnest Request, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196389_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, I Get Everything I Want II, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196386_1_grid.jpg)
I Get Everything I Want II
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 61 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$953
![Painting, I Get Everything I Want III, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196385_1_grid.jpg)
I Get Everything I Want III
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 61 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,144
![Painting, Legacy of Expectation, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196384_1_grid.jpg)
Legacy of Expectation
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 92 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 36.2 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$1,144
![Painting, Fertility of Chaos, Jennifer DeGroot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196387_1_grid.jpg)
Fertility of Chaos
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$3,049