Three-dimensional figures, inspired by Donald McGill's saucy postcards, are being tested for an environmental art scheme.

The subjects of these canvasses were typically religious, most often a configuration of figures inspired by a passage from the Gospels.

Other figures, inspired by the some missionary zeal joined them.

Take, for instance, his ebullient "Pre-Columbus" series of squat, sitting figures inspired by pre-Columbian sculpture.

He started to produce striking, intensely coloured figures inspired by indigenous Brazilian culture that attracted first local and then foreign attention.

Since 2002 he has painted large-scale scenes filled with figures, often inspired by reproductions from newspapers or history books.

Black silhouetted figures, presumably inspired by prehistoric wall drawings, appear on the vessel's sides.

The single's cover features a skeletal figure inspired by a poster for the 1946 film serial The Crimson Ghost.

Antonio Serna's spare, linear paintings are based on figures inspired by Japanese prints.

Chelsea also made figures, birds and animals inspired by Meissen originals.