A.G. 'Newmi' Newman Newmi was born Alan George Clare in London England. He grew up an only child in the East End with his Mum and step Dad Bill Newman, after whom he was renamed. Newmi was studying Philosophy at the University of Warwick when he received his first Sartori and promptly dropped out to see the world. In the early 1970s he bummed around Europe, hitch-hiked to India from Holland and spent almost two years exploring India, Nepal and Afghanistan, before moving to North America in late 1973. In 1988, Newmi travelled to Ubud and studied mask carving with Ida Bagus Anom and Ida Bagus Ok...