Born in 1939, Noel White trained at Weston-super-Mare School of Art, the West-of-England College of Art and Aarhus University, Denmark. In his early twenties, he met the painter and poet David Jones and was profoundly moved by his ideas. It was his meetings with the Danish artist Maar Julius Lange in the late 1960s that finally united him with the task of painting for life. He has exhibited widely in the UK, and in Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Russia and Israel and his commissions include two glass engraved windows for St Ninian's Episcopal Church in Edinburgh completed in 2000.