Noel Gregory was born in Ealing England on Christmas Day 1944 and moved to Buckinghamshire in the early fifties. His interests were always directed to the arts rather than academic subjects and his acceptance into High Wycombe College of Art in 1960, was the start of four years training for the National Diploma in Design and Art Teachers. Having finished his training with the Art Teachers Diploma in Bournemouth Noel then taught painting at Newlands Park teacher training college.

He then started picture restoring and for over twenty five years dealt with what was to become the huge growth market of Victorian Water Colours, using his own art gallery in Farnham Common Buckinghamshire for this purpose. In the late 1980's the economic problems of investment painting, antiques and the housing markets were such that to continue in the art field he started painting and producing images and prints to be sold in the gallery. The interest produced in the these works was sufficient to promote them at fine art shows, Ideal Home Exhibitions and craft fairs and to develop a large American market with the juried street fairs of the Sunshine Trail in Florida and Alabama.

It was at Hampton Court Flower Show that Search Press approached him to be the author of a book on oil painting, Painting With Oils, for their new art series and this was to become a best seller and translated into sixteen languages. His Painting Flowers in Oils followed and a new book Instant Oil Painting was inspired by moving to southern Spain and changing style, colour and speed of production. He is now running art courses in Bedar, Almeria.