Sine MacKinnon

Sine MacKinnon (11 February 1901 – 1996) was an Irish landscape artist.

Early life Selina Mairi Sine MacKinnon was born in Newcastle, County Down to Ranuld Edmund Eliot MacKinnon of Binfield, Surrey and Clementina Alicia née D'Arcy. Her father was a clerk in the law courts in London.

She was educated in the Slade School of Fine Art in London between 1918 and 1924. Her mentor was Henry Tonks. Her portrait was painted by a fellow student Allan Gwynne-Jones in 1922. The Tate Gallery purchased her painting, Farm Buildings in Provence (1934) in 1940.

Her work was critiqued by Thomas MacGreevy.

When her husband was ill, MacKinnon reduced her painting. He died in 1974. After that she began to show in exhibitions again. She was a member of the French women artists group « ». Mackinnon died in Paris in 1996.