posted 05-01-2014 06:45 AM               

After a 12 year absence from creating his own art, Derek started to focus on his personal work in 2009.

His first personal project, Born in Concrete, was undertaken to dispel his biases towards expressive art, overcome his own perceived limitations and to rejuvenate his creative spirit. This collision of Soviet inspired retro sci-fi and Jewish mystical and qabalistic symbolism has evolved into a filter, or framework, that emotions, ideas and images are pushed through to be given shape and form. This project has been well received, being featured in numerous exhibits, international publications, as well as book and album covers, it continues to unfold and expand…

This book will feature a gallery section of artwork, a chapter on the artwork created for use as graphics on snowboards, the snowboards and the corresponding marketing material as well as a chapter on the creation of a resin model kit by Industria Mechanika.

A section of the book will also be dedicated to a step-by-step breakdown of how one of the art pieces was created.

• Hardcover: 96 pages
  
• Publisher: Design Studio Press (November 12, 2013)
  
• ISBN-10: 1624650066
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1624650062

Born in Concrete, The EK Series is the visual expression of a journey undertaken by concept artist and illustrator Derek Stenning to shed his own artistic biases and to rejuvenate his creative spirit. In these personal pieces that feature weathered cosmonauts inhabiting a hazy void somewhere between hope and despair, Stenning utilizes techniques that he normally would have shunned away and freely his own artistic sense without regard for story, trends or other external pressures.