Kimberly Raboin

Kimberly Raboin grew up in a rural town in western Massachusetts, where she had a childhood surrounded by art, creativity and nature. During her elementary school years she won many school and statewide art awards. She went on to college and received a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology in 2003 from The University of Massachusetts. She received a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in painting, also from The University of Massachusetts, in 2010. After receiving her BFA she took a break from fine art, and instead directed her attention toward working as a floral designer and manager for many years.

During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 she found herself quarantined and decided to use the extra time to work on some drawings simply for enjoyment and stress relief. While in quarantine she discovered she enjoyed drawing more than painting even though she had more training in painting. She found she enjoys working in a precise and detailed manner rather than in the loose and quick manner she was taught in college. Her time in quarantine was a period of self-discovery and helped her start up a more serious art practice again.  Since returning to an art practice, colored pencils have become her medium of choice and her work has been displayed in local and international shows. Her work has been in The Colored Pencil Society of America’s International Exhibition in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Her work has also been featured in COLOR magazine, Colored Pencil Magazine, and the book CP Treasures: Colored Pencil Masterworks from Around the Globe, Volumes 8 and 9. She is a member of a local Colored Pencil Society of America chapter, Detroit 104, and has won awards in the chapter’s shows. She is also a member of a local art group, The Brighton Art Guild, and shows her art in guild shows. She has shown her work in other local shows and won awards locally.

Kimberly’s work is inspired by her deep love for nature, traveling experiences, and spirituality. Recent works have been landscapes, in which she enjoys capturing vast open spaces and the sense of being airborne. She has visions for future work and aspirations to create images from her imagination that are surreal. She wishes to visually convey internal emotional and spiritual experiences which are often difficult to articulate. Her drawings ‘Obscured Vision’ and ‘Athanasy’ are beginnings of this body of work.