Inspiration

Cy Twombly — The Coronation of Sesostris, Lepanto & The Four Seasons. The sculpture, especially, Winter’s Passage Luxor (Porto Ercole) & Untitled (Eros / Binder and Joiner, Lexington)

Jean-Michel Basquiat — I like almost everything but especially — In Italian, Nu Nile, The Dingoes That Park Their Brains with Their Gum, Per Capita, Untitled (Magic Worms) & Untitled (Ter Borch)

Willem De Kooning — I especially like the period 1957 — 1963 including Ruth’s Zowie, September Morn, Door to The River & Spike’s Folly II

Julian Schnabel — I really like Works on Paper & Palazzo Chupi. Basquiat (The movie)

Georg Baselitz — A focus on the 1980s — Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London

Rose Wylie
John Fekner
Louise Bourgeois
Yoko Ono
Paul Klee (The Angels especially)
Mark Rothko
Gilbert & George
Joseph Beuys
William Blake
Andy Goldsworthy
Ibrahim Hussein
Wladyslaw Hasior
John Atkinson Grimshaw
Billy Childish
Vincent Van Gogh
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner & Erich Heckel

Outsider art
Abstract Expressionism
Neo Expressionism
German Expressionism

Tate Britain, The Noguchi Museum, MoMA, Arken, Denmark, Dia:Beacon, Stormking, National Galleries of Scotland, York Art Gallery. Ferens Hull. The Hepworth Wakefield, Gagosian, Ben Uri Gallery & Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

London, New York City (especially SoHo, Great Jones Street & the East/West Village), Paris, Berlin (when I first visited in ’88), Zakopane, The Isle of Skye, Edinburgh, Marrakech, Zagorsk, Miami Beach, Langkawi, Barcelona, Dublin, Palma Mallorca, Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Noi & Hué, Vietnam, Copenhagen, Riga, Tallin, Valletta, Venice, York, Tokyo, Kyoto & Hiroshima

Patti Smith, especially Just Kids
William Shakespeare
George Orwell
Samuel Beckett
T.S. Eliot
Allen Ginsberg
Derek Jarman
Matsuo Basho and Haiku poetry in general

David Bowie
Iggy Pop — especially The Idiot & Lust for Life
The Beatles
The B52's (1st 2 albums)
Patti Smith — especially, Horses
Brian Eno — On Land, Discreet Music, Shutov Assembly, Apollo
Kraftwerk
Pere Ubu
Michael Rother – Flammende Herzen, Dreaming
The Fall
Einstűrzende Neu Bauten – ½ Mensch
Neu!
Susumu Yokota – Grinning Cat
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds & Grinderman
Joy Division
Chopin, Nocturnes & Impromptus
Mark Lanegan, Bubblegum
Philip Glass (especially Glassworks & Hydrogen Jukebox)
Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Jutta Hipp, Neil Cowley Trio, especially Spacebound Apes
David Sylvian

The ocean, rivers, streams, trees, silence, frost, clouds & sky

Red wine, Guinness, Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter, Irish & Japanese Whiskey

Jim Jarmusch films but especially Paterson, Ghost Dog & Only Lovers Left Alive
Wim Wenders films but especially Wings of Desire & Perfect Days
George Best
Gary Oldman
Charlotte Rampling – The Look

Oil paint sticks
Acrylic paint
Pearl Paint, NYC (now sadly gone)
Atlantis Art Materials & L. Cornelissen & Son, London

The industrial landscape of Sheffield in the 60s & 70s
Weston Park Museum (before the refurbishment)
West Street
Rare & Racy
The Crucible Theatre
The Limit Club

Hawksmoor churches — Christ Church Spitalfields & St Mary Woolnoth in particular

Lomo Photographs
Peter Lindbergh photography
Vivian Maier

Vivienne Westwood, Agnes B & Solovair shoes

Japanese writing & woodblock prints
Josef Müller - Brockmann
Blue Note & ECM album cover design

Life! Remember, everyone dies but not everyone lives… and,
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken — Oscar Wilde