Pastel artwork depicting a Land Rover Defender viewed head-on, tightly framed to emphasise the grille, headlights, bull bar, winch and bonnet details, with worn paintwork, metal textures, glass reflections and subtle surface marks rendered in sharp hyper-realist detail against a clear blue sky.
Pastel artwork depicting a Land Rover Defender viewed head-on, tightly framed to emphasise the grille, headlights, bull bar, winch and bonnet details, with worn paintwork, metal textures, glass reflections and subtle surface marks rendered in sharp hyper-realist detail against a clear blue sky.
Pastel artwork depicting a Land Rover Defender viewed head-on, tightly framed to emphasise the grille, headlights, bull bar, winch and bonnet details, with worn paintwork, metal textures, glass reflections and subtle surface marks rendered in sharp hyper-realist detail against a clear blue sky.
Pastel artwork depicting a Land Rover Defender viewed head-on, tightly framed to emphasise the grille, headlights, bull bar, winch and bonnet details, with worn paintwork, metal textures, glass reflections and subtle surface marks rendered in sharp hyper-realist detail against a clear blue sky.
Ray West

DEFENDER (Original)

Defender presents the iconic Land Rover head-on - unapologetic, functional, and built to endure. Framed tightly from the front, the composition removes any sense of landscape or journey and instead focuses on presence. This is not a vehicle in motion, but an object defined by strength, utility, and purpose.

Ray’s hyper-realist handling of pastel brings extraordinary clarity to every surface. The weight of steel, the dull sheen of worn paint, the subtle distortions in glass and chrome, and the accumulated marks of use are rendered with forensic care. Light catches on metal edges and curves, while shadow reinforces the Defender’s solid, uncompromising form.

There is a quiet restraint to the palette and composition that mirrors the character of the vehicle itself. Nothing is embellished, nothing softened. Defender is a study in durability - an object designed to work, to last, and to be trusted.

Executed entirely in pastel, the work demonstrates Ray’s mastery of a medium more often associated with softness, pushing it instead toward precision, weight, and industrial realism.

Material: Painted using Carbothello, Derwent and Faber-Castell pastel pencils, Unison and Rembrandt soft pastels, on light grey Pastelmat.
Size (Artwork): 70 x 50 cm
Size (Framed): Professionally framed  in chunky black frame (86 x 66 x 6 cm) with black core white mount behind glass.
Created: March 2023

OPTION: Print available as Limited Edition of 55: £215.00

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