Derek Stenning’s last few years have been challenging, particularly from a personal work point of view, and a lot of this time seemed lost to him.

A terminal illness in the family put him in the position of a primary caregiver. This, along with too much professional work, injury, and family duties left him burnt out, with little time for his own art.

During these busy times he often turned back to his Entartete Kunst series to distract him from the craziness going on in his life. This art project had rejuvenated him once before with his book Born in Concrete; maybe it could do it again. A sketch here or there, or a painting, started to get him through a difficult spot. Few of these pieces were finished; many were begun and left, as he had no time or energy to complete them.

Thankfully, he has had more breathing room recently, and he circled back to finish those pieces. EK2: The Lost Years is a collection of model kit design work and production paintings, personal commissions, and a selection of material from a resin statue project.

He hopes, by completing this work, it will allow him—from an artistic point of view—to reclaim these lost years.

Trained as a traditional animator, Derek is a concept artist and illustrator working in the game development field. Over the years he has worked on projects for companies like Microsoft and Nintendo, as well as several smaller start-ups and independent studios.

His personal project, Entartete Kunst, or the EK Series, was undertaken to get back to his creative roots. This project has been translated into numerous other forms, including book/magazine cover art, limited edition art prints, and a line of resin model kits, to name a few. This is his second EK art book, following Born in Concrete: The EK Series, also published by Design Studio Press.

Derek lives in Victoria, BC, with his wife and two children.

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