Hoyland once made a list of the things that fire his imagination: «Shields, masks, tools, artefacts, mirrors, Avebury Circle, swimming underwater, snorkelling, views from planes, volcanoes, mountains, waterfalls,
rocks, graffiti, stains, damp
walls,
cracked pavements, puddles, the cosmos inside the human body, food, drink, being drunk, sex, the Caribbean, the tropical light, the northern light, the oceanic light»... the list goes on.