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The Advanced Oils Program

Go beyond technique — create, connect, and step into your professional potential

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The Advanced Oils Program at the Martin Kinnear Studio is where capable painters become confident artists. It’s designed for those ready to push past the basics, originate work with intent, and connect with a serious, like-minded community of peers and professionals.

This is not a course for dabbling — it’s a space to deepen, to refine, and to develop your voice as a contemporary oil painter with the support of tutors who understand what it takes to exhibit, compete, and evolve.

 

Why Choose the Advanced Oils Program?

From competent to compelling
You’ve got the tools — now let’s use them to make meaningful, original work. This program moves beyond technique into creative origination: developing ideas, shaping series, and making work that holds together visually, conceptually, and professionally.

Informed. Engaged. Ambitious.
This isn’t just a class. It’s a community of emerging and committed artists engaging in real critical dialogue, feedback, and development. Whether you’re building a portfolio, preparing for open calls, or simply ready to work at a higher level, this is where it happens.

A structured route to exhibitions and open competitions
We show you how to turn process into practice — and then into presence. Learn how to identify opportunities, submit strong work, and articulate your ideas professionally. The Advanced Oils Program is a springboard to gallery-ready painting and career visibility.

 

What's Included?

• Advanced tuition on composition, series development, visual language, and creative risk

• In-depth tutorials on glazing, impasto, expressive mark-making, and conceptual cohesion

• Continual and cumulative guidance on building a coherent body of work

• Professional insight into exhibiting, submissions, and visual positioning

• Interactive critique and feedback from tutors and peers

• Access to our professional advanced oils painting community

• Priority invites to our studio exhibitions, salons, and mentoring opportunities

 

Build More Than a Skill — Build a Practice

The Advanced Oils Program is the next step for The Oils Program graduates or experienced painters who want more than just technique. It’s where your practice becomes a body of work — and your consistently professional work becomes a calling card for the wider art world.

Whether you’re preparing for your first group show, refining a submission for a national competition, or working toward a portfolio for postgraduate study, this program equips you with the creative, critical, and professional insight to take that step with confidence.

 

Your Studio, Your Future

At The Martin Kinnear Studio, we know that becoming an artist is not a leap — it’s a journey. That’s why our teaching doesn’t stop at skills. It continues through mentoring, exhibitions, critique, and community — because creative life needs continuity.

The Advanced Oils Program is your path to sustained creative growth, professional direction, and purposeful painting.

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