Ginner has sometimes been identified as the 'Van Gogh' of British Post- Impressionism because of his intense feel for colour and paint. The use of warm and cold colours is typical of Post-Impressionist style, but his painting technique was in fact quite different.

Ginner had a much tighter control of the paint and constructed his pictures with mosaic-like blocks of impasto.

Despite his professed loathing for formulaic painting Ginner's own style had become something of a formula by this period.