some art that I appreciate

• Ursula K. Le Guin, because her science fiction is philosophical, utopian, human(e) and poetic
• A. S. Byatt, whose writing is nuanced, intelligent and luminous
• Robertson Davies' dark glittering writing of depth, wit and perspicacity
• Patricia Duncker's wonderful novel Hallucinating Foucault
• Jeanette Winterson's early work, which is earthy and speaks to my condition
• Michèle Roberts' novels, especially The Wild Girl, In the Red Kitchen and Daughters of the House
• Salman Rushdie - especially Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Midnight's Children
  
• Iris Murdoch - again, her early work, especially Under the Net and The Bell
• Patrick Leigh-Fermor - the most beautiful travel writing ever
• Lawrence Durrell - especially the Alexandria Quartet, which is beautifully written and introduced me to Cavafy
• Many fine blogs (see Blogs I Read and the spiritual blogroll on dance of the elements), but especially The Expvlsion of the Blatant Beast, Quaker Pagan Reflections and Théâtre Phantasmagorique
• Lots of books
• The poetry of Sylvia Plath, U A Fanthorpe, and Hilary Llewellyn Williams
• The films of Jeunet and Caro, especially Delicatessen
• The art of Pierre et Gilles
• The Pre-Raphaelites, especially Burne-Jones and Evelyn de Morgan
  
• Marc Chagall and Cecil Collins
• Gustav Klimt
  
• Hokusai and Hiroshige
• the haiku of Bashō
• the films of Hayao Miyazaki
• the clear and elegant writing of Ronald Hutton
  
• Music: klezmer, cajun, medieval, renaissance, baroque, Dead Can Dance, Mediaeval Baebes, Dragonsfly, Kate Bush, Sequentia