Derek Jarman sketchbooks - in pictures

Edward II to Glitterbug. Private collection Photograph: Sketchbooks

Derek and Luciana Martinez; Luciana was a fellow artist introduced to Derek by Andrew and Peter Logan. She appeared in many of Derek's Super 8 films and helped to cast the punks who appeared in Jubilee (1978)'. Keith Collins. BFI National Archive Photograph: Sketchbooks

A still from Jarman's 'fantasy documentary' Jubilee (1988), described by Toyah Willcox, one of it's stars, 'as the first punk movie'

'The budget for Jubilee was very tight, with no luxury of multiple takes, so Derek worked out all camera angles and positions of actors meticulously before he shot anything'. Keith Collins. BFI National Archive Photograph: Sketchbooks

Jarman used his sketchbooks to keep ephemera. These pages contain two articles about Channel 4 and Derek's films from British national newspapers in 1982 and 1986. BFI National Archive Photograph: Sketchbooks

Video stills from Jarman's 1990 film The Garden, starring Tilda Swinton and shot against the backdrop of his beloved coastal garden in Dungeness

The garden of Prospect Cottage in Dungeness was inspired by a visit to Japan's Hokoku-ji temple. Private Collection Photograph: Sketchbooks

A poem written following his travels to North America, while reflecting on the work of painter Mark Rothko, in 1965, when he was a student at the Slade School of Art. BFI National Archive Photograph: Sketchbooks

'Plants that thrive at Dungeness are typically subterranean or barren nondescript twigs during winter's gales and salt spray. This plan prevented inadvertent trampling, and acted as an aide-memoire - to prevent repeated mistakes of reintroducing plants that didn't survive.' Keith Collins

'The text was originally intended as a voice-over at the start of the film The Garden, but was repurposed as the opening lines of the diaries published as Modern Nature.' Keith Collins. Private Collection Photograph: Sketchbooks

The Garden. Private Collection Photograph: Sketchbooks

Caravaggio's The Death of the Virgin - inspiration for Jarman's 1985 film, shot in a leaking warehouse in Canary Wharf

Mimosa, Jarman's favourite blossom - he often used sprigs of it as bookmarks or incorporated them into his black assemblage paintings. BFI National Archive Photograph: Sketchbooks

'In the film, both Ranuccio (Sean Bean) and Jerusalem (Spencer Leigh) pose as models for this painting of St John the Baptist.' Christopher Hobbs

'Tilda's rose, pressed and immortalized.' Keith Collins. BFI National Archive Photograph: Sketchbooks

1965 Untitled - Poems V and VI together with visual reponse. It is as if Jarman were trying to respond through collages to his own words, looking for the visual equivalent of a text. It is an early indication of his search to combine words and images. Jarman continued to write poetry and include it in his work throughtout his life. BFI National Archive Photograph: Sketchbooks

1965 Untitled - Poems V and VI together with visual reponse. It is as if Jarman were trying to respond through collages to his own words, looking for the visual equivalent of a text. It is an early indication of his search to combine words and images. Jarman continued to write poetry and include it in his work throughtout his life. BFI National Archive Photograph: Sketchbooks

Sketches for Sylvano Bussotti's opera, directed by Jarman in Florence in 1988. BFI National Archive Photograph: Sketchbooks