Painter, draughtsman, lecturer and writer who gained an honours degree in fine art at Leeds University, 1971, his master’s in fine art at Nottingham Polytechnic, 1986, and after research in the psychiatry department of the University of Sheffield, in 1991, his master’s with distinction in art and psychotherapy there, 1993. He followed this with doctoral research into psychoanalysis and creativity at University of Sheffield, in 1995 publishing the acclaimed study The Politics and Psychoanalysis of Primitivism. Newton was a visiting lecturer at Exeter College of Art, 1989–92, and at University of Plymouth, 1993. Exhibitions included Wolfson 25 at Wolfson College, Oxford, 1991; Miart, Milan, from 1995; and Art’s Hidden Order, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1996.