Johnathan Roy Newton studied at the Ontario College of Art and design and received his Fine Arts Diploma. He majored in Classical Realism, with a strong emphasis on the figure.

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Jonathan apprenticed under Ray Simpson, a portrait painter, in the Old Master Tradition. Newton has won awards in juried exhibitions.

He has been commissioned to do portraits, landscapes, figurative work, narrative work, murals, Trompe I'oeil. 

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Jonathan Newton is now clearly establishing himself as one of the leading realist painters of his generation & has a growing following throughout Canada & the United States.