As a ten-year-old boy he met with the pastelist Voldemārs Irbe, who instructed Vinters in pastel painting and helped to foster his appreciation for nature.

Resulting from contact he made with the painter Hugo Kārlis Grotuss, from 1937 Vinters changed his painting style.

Grotuss encouraged him to give up 'the dark phase' he had developed through Irbe, to use brighter primers and to show more briskness and color in his paintings.

In 1944, Vinters had to drop out of his studies; he was drafted for the service in the Latvian Legion and deployed near Toruń on the Vistula River.

[4] Vinters was given a solo exhibition in England in 1992, the first of many in that country; he also began to show his paintings in the United States and Germany during the 1990s and 2000s.

On 16 November 2009 Edgars Vinters was awarded the Order of the Three Stars by President Valdis Zatlers in recognition of his lifetime achievement.