Jeffrey Kimbler is an Arizona native, transplanted to Sacramento.  His work focuses on realism with a love of the Old Masters and traditional techniques.  He studied under Jim Garrison at Mesa Community College and at Arizona State University, both in Phoenix, Arizona. He has taught at Mesa Community College, Central Arizona College, and Arizona State University, and is currently a full-time Assistant Professor of Art at Cosumnes River College in Elk Grove, California.  He is a juried member of the International Guild of Realism.

"The current focus of my work is the production of tonal drawings of compositions of objects in my immediate environment, executed in charcoal and conte.  I find joy in exploring the limits of drawing, which I feel deserves a unique status in art, independent of painting.  At home and in the studio, I find human reflection in objects like food and candy, clothing and electronics.  Sometimes, a particular set of objects is purposely staged to elicit a certain set of choices, and other times I try to capture a random grouping.  My work excludes any physical human presence, but instead focuses on the material traces of human existence.  As a result, I hope my drawings allow viewers to imaginatively fill in the blanks. I work directly through observation, studying the objects and light closely while taking only the information I need. I aim to imbue my work with the qualities of the solitary, quiet moments that I have experienced and create a mood of unresolved vagueness or mystery.  I explore a range of spaces, from finished to unfinished, until I am satisfied that the drawing is complete, which occurs when the work settles into a balance of softness and focus,  light and shadow, and occupancy and emptiness."

Although the forms that I portray represent objects in contemporary life, my work has been deeply influenced by artists of the past.  Still-lifes of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century were produced in vast numbers in Europe.  Dutch still-life artists pushed the value of description and observation, and flirted with both symbolism and depictions of everyday life and interior scenes.  In both Italy and Spain, Caravaggio and his contemporaries Cotan, Zurburan and Velazquez, created still lifes of mysterious abstract spaces balanced with meager ordinary objects, bathed in dramatic light.  Often the items were evenly spaced, with an almost ritualistic separation, emphasizing an otherworldly importance."