Norman Greenaway is Victor Greenaway's older brother. He completed a diploma at art school in Melbourne in 1954. His first placement was in Mildura but he later established a pottery studio at Horsham, where he taught the young Victor to throw during school holidays. He was still living and working in Horsham in 1978 when he held an exhibition of his ceramics at Horsham Gallery. His work may be signed with an incised or painted 'N Greenaway' and also used an impressed 'NG' mark.