ON SALE NOW!!
To celebrate my most recent exhibition, Rock of Ages, at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, I’m releasing a commemorative limited edition book featuring all of the work from the exhibit, along with a few pieces that didn’t make it into the show.
To mark the occasion, I’ve also put together a few limited book bundles, bringing together a selection of items tied directly to the exhibition.
All books and bundles go live tomorrow at 1PM EST.
Alongside the Rock of Ages exhibition book release, I’ll also be dropping a small handful of limited bundles featuring prints, apparel, pins, sketchbooks, t-shirts and other extras connected to the show.
ON SALE THURS @ 1PM EST
THE EVOLUTIONARY ART OF DEREK HESS
To celebrate my most recent exhibition, Rock of Ages, at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, I’m releasing a commemorative limited edition book featuring all of the work from the exhibit, along with a few pieces that didn’t make it into the show.
This book documents the full body of work created for the exhibition capturing the themes, imagery, and progression of the series in one complete volume.
Now’s your chance to grab a limited edition Flower of the Month print. There’s a flower created for every month of the year...here’s just a sample of a few, with the full collection available on my site.
Whether you’re picking one up for yourself or as a gift for someone else, flowers never go out of style.
Hawthorn Print (May) Available Now! Originals available tomorrow at 1pm EST.
Hawthorn is a limited edition print illustrated by Derek Hess, symbolic of hope, protection, and the quiet strength found in endurance. This image is part of an ongoing, multi-year series of Flower Of The Month drawings, with limited edition prints released on the first of each month at derekhess.com.
Often tied to protection of the heart, it carries meanings of guarded vulnerability, transformation, and the ability to move forward while still carrying what came before.
Signed and numbered limited edition of 75.
16” x 20”.
Haven’t seen these in a many years #Repost @errorzonevintage
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“Thinking the same black thoughts”
(Deftones/Poison The Well, Derek Hess tour designs, 2003)
In 2003, to promote the then upcoming releases of both Deftones’ S/T and Poison The Well’s You Come Before You, the bands released a split EP featuring a couple of singles from their respective albums and toured together. The legendary artist Derek Hess did the art for both of these shirts, with the Deftones tee using the full art from the EP. Two of my favorite bands in one post.
FFO:
#deftones #poisonthewell #derekhess #youcomebeforeyou
It’s playoff time and we all need a Hockey Print - This was originally a commercial but I thought it was good so it was made into a print. I love drawing a hockey player in all his equipment. Capturing the gesture of the figure with bulky gear on is fun to do.
Don’t Hold Strong Opinions About Things You Don’t Understand - “Many times when people tend to say things like ‘just snap out of it’ or ‘think of the people who have it worse than you’, and it’s just not helpful when you’re facing your own situational or chronic mental health issues.”
22” x 18.5”
To celebrate my most recent show Rock of Ages at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, I’ll be releasing a commemorative limited edition book featuring all of the work from the exhibit, along with a few pieces that didn’t make it into the show.
There will also be a limited number of bundles available with t-shirts, stickers, and more.
Keep an eye on socials and email next week for the release.
I know many of you are excited about the upcoming poster book…don’t worry, that will be dropping later this summer. Every order of this book will include something special pertaining to the poster book.
Heute Abend ist die Eröffnung meiner Ausstellung REIGN ON ME.
Neue Arbeiten von Derek Hess
Samstag, 18. April 2026, ab 20:00 Uhr
Vernissage ab 20 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 19. April – 9. Mai 2026
Feinkunst Krüger
Kohlhöfen 8
20355 Hamburg
Ich freue mich auf euren Besuch.
I’m returning to Germany with a new show called ‘Reign On Me’. This show is a new direction and i parted ways with the old themes of the past. With a new person in my life i’ve discovered hope for a new day. She was the launching pad for this body of work and inspired me through out the year it took me to produce it. We both will be at the gallery opening night and i look forward to you meeting her and saying hi to myself…….here’s the artist statement.
“Reign On Me” is a body of work inspired by a recurring lyric from The Who, off their Quadrophenia record (1973), which repeatedly asks, “Do you know the real me?”Most people don’t want to know who we really are as a person, and that can be a very lonely existence.
For many years, I prayed for love to reign over me. Alongside those prayers, I started to examine the inner workings of my mind, my soul, and any moments of connection with God I could find. The pieces in this show were created over the course of a year, as a surprising new relationship was unfolding with a woman special to me. Through these illustrations and mixed-media pieces, I documented the highs and lows of this intense love and found the emotional range within the relationship to be very satisfying. Even though my life had been lacking in that way before, I feel so grateful for the experience.
“Reign On Me,” as an exhibition, is a departure from my previous shows where I had dwelled on the depression and was working on my mental health. Those things continue to be important to me, but artistically it has been time to move on. I wanted to get out of the thinking aspects of mental health and get into the practice of real life. For me, it was actually taking that risk of entering into a personal relationship again, and letting myself be vulnerable, that allowed me to feel the positive effects of love.
It wasn’t planned. It’s just something that evolved.
It was a feeling – which included both chaos and calm.
Read the rest at the blog on my website.
