Self taught artist Kenneth Hall worked in furniture design before becoming a painter. His first exhibition took place at the Lucy Wertheim Gallery, London, in 1934. The following year he met the painter Basil Rakoczi and together they formed the White Stag Group. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Hall and Rakoczi moved to Galway, and then Dublin where they held the first White Stag Group exhibition. Hall continued to exhibit with the White Stag Group until he returned to London in 1945.