Martin Kinnear is a contemporary oil painter and mentor whose work is recognised for its sustained engagement with material process and the expressive potential of paint. Trained at the Royal College of Art, he has developed a practice that approaches painting as a temporal and investigative act, where meaning emerges through revision, resistance, and the physical behaviour of materials.

His paintings are held in the UK Government Art Collection and in museum and private collections, and he is the recipient of the Médaille d’Argent at the Paris Salon. Alongside his studio practice, Kinnear writes on painting and has published widely in Artists & Illustrators, The Artist, and Leisure Painter, contributing to contemporary discussions around technique, perception, and painterly thought.

Operating between studio practice and artistic research, his current work focuses particularly on British modernism and the conditions through which making itself becomes a form of knowledge. He lectures at the Royal College of Art and mentors painters at all stages of their development.