My work has almost always been figuratively based.
I use a life model regularly and occasionally find poses which inspire a whole series of pieces that can cover several years of making.
I look at a lot of sculpture (from all over the world and all centuries) but of art forms, painting is probably the one that I turn to most directly for inspiration.
I am conscious that many of my pieces have originated from looking at the painting of Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and Chagall. It is possibly interesting that the first three were sculptors too. It is their painting, rather than their sculpture, that interests me but I do wonder whether there is something in the language of their painting that I relate too more readily because they were sculptors too.
I have been inspired also by literature and music (opera particularly) but this is a more abstract link in terms of the spirit or general mood of the piece rather than the more specific physical form.
What inspires one particular piece more often than anything else, in my case, is the piece that went before it.