10,000,000 eyes land on one cover. Every single month.
This June, that cover is Derek Burleson's from the US.

"Art is not decoration. It is declaration." Derek Burleson didn't take the straight road to this cover.

Art ran in his blood - a father who was a commercial artist, an aunt who painted across Mexico while teaching at the University of Kansas. Then life called. For 28 years, Derek served in law enforcement. The brushes waited. When he retired, he came back to them - and came back with something most artists spend a lifetime searching for. A reason bigger than himself. He paints in acrylics, finishes in oils, finds everything he needs in nature - light and color in tension and peace, until the canvas finds its balance. And every month, he walks into a room of seniors and reminds them the artist was always in there. Waiting.

"I truly believe I was given this talent to share with others." That is the kind of artist who belongs on a cover seen by 10,000,000 people.