Painter of near abstract landscapes and figures in oils; sculptor.

Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938. In 1943 he joined the army and served in France, Holland and Germany until 1948. He studied at Dusseldorf Academy 1948-9, and returned to London to study at St Martin’s School of Art 1949-53.

He participated in many group shows including Six Young Contemporaries, Gimpel Fils, London 1951 and 1953; Pittsburgh International Exhibition, 1961; British Painting in the Sixties, Contemporary Arts Society; British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art; The Tokyo International Biennale, 1974; and British Art ’74 at the Hayward. He had one-man shows at Arthur Tooth & Sons and Gimpel Fils, London, Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, The Bluecoat Society of Arts, Liverpool, and a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1982.

Prizewinner at John Moores, Liverpool in 1969, his works are in the Tate Gallery and Arts Council collections, and in galleries in the USA, Australia and Brazil. He taught at St.Martin’s, Wimbledon and Bath. Influenced by De Stael, and a friend of Howard Hodgkin, Kinley paints simple stylised figures on brightly coloured grounds, in thick textured paint, using a palette knife.