Born in 1979 in Aotearoa, New Zealand, Freeman White is regarded as one of the country's top living landscape painters, known particularly for his work capturing the Hawke's Bay area. His paintings connect viewers to the timeless and ever changing beauty of the New Zealand landscape, with textured, layered brushwork that gives each canvas a real sense of energy and movement.

White began his career focused on portraiture, winning first prize in the 2006 ADAM National Portrait Awards. The win brought him international recognition and led to exhibitions at the REAL international symposium for Figurative Art in Germany in 2007 and 2009. He also spent six months in Edinburgh painting portraits at the invitation of James Holloway, then Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

In 2009 White turned to landscape painting, bringing the same technical skill to a new genre. He often works en plein air, painting directly from what is in front of him. His landscapes go beyond capturing a view, they draw out the small shifts in light and shadow, the warmth on one side of a hill against the shade on the other, and the feeling of standing in the scene itself, whether that's salt spray on a beach or the pull of a rolling tide.

White has held numerous sell-out solo shows across New Zealand along with many group exhibitions, and was voted Wellington's Top Artist in the Wellington Capital Times Best of 2010 poll. He has received a number of awards, including the Norsewear Art Awards, the ADAM Portrait Awards, and the Hawke's Bay Invitational. His work is held in public, private, and corporate collections across Europe, the USA, the UAE, and Australasia, including the New Zealand Portrait Gallery and The Royal Society of New Zealand. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts.