Who has influenced your art and how?

I’ve been thinking lately about how strange influence is in art.

Sometimes you consciously look at an artist and think, “I want to understand how they’re doing this.” And sometimes you look back at your own work years later and realise that someone has quietly been sitting in the background of your visual language all along.

For me, three artists who keep coming back into my work are Milt Kobayashi, Édouard Vuillard, and Isidre Nonell.
There’s something about the way they deal with figures, interiors, atmosphere, colour and that feeling of a moment being slightly removed from the viewer that I find myself returning to. I don't think I consciously try to paint like any of them, but their influence seems to have seeped into the way I look at space and people.

I’m curious about this with other artists here. Who are the artists whose work has quietly made its way into yours?
Could be someone from your own country, someone completely unexpected, or an artist you only realised had influenced you much later.

And if you feel like it, tell me what you think you’ve inherited from them :-a way of seeing, a colour relationship, composition, subject matter, mood, technique, whatever.

I’d genuinely love to discover who everyone has been carrying around in the back of their heads while making work.