Bas Dirks

One Hundred Ninety-sevenNo. 197Pastel on paper, 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6 in), 2026 One Hundred Ninety-sixNo. 196Oil and pastel on paper, 70 × 50 cm (27.6 × 19.7 in), 2026 One Hundred Ninety-fiveNo. 195Pastel on paper, 70 × 50 cm (27.6 × 19.7 in), 2026 One Hundred Eighty-eightNo. 188Acrylic, oil and pastel on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in), 2026 Landscape sheet of near-white paper, very pale throughout. A grey-blue hatched smear falls through the middle from upper left to lower right, carrying small graphite marks along it like a line of handwriting and ending in one black wedge low at the centre. Left of it, pale yellow arcs stack into a loose vertical cluster threaded with thin pink and coral filaments and a few orange hooks; two small orange loops hang alone in the upper right, and the right third is almost empty paper with only a few tiny flecks. Faint, airy and warm, with one cool diagonal holding it together.No. 186Pastel and pencil on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm (16.5 × 11.7 in), 2026 Sparse landscape sheet, mostly bare white paper. Right of centre a frame of blue uprights and red rails carries a broad orange chute that flares and curls at its foot without touching any ground. Left of it a cluster of blunt red glyphs and a knot of grey pencil scribble hover unanchored; violet zigzags stand in a green wash at the lower left, a single navy diagonal falls away to the right, and a soft yellow mass lights the upper right corner.No. 180Pastel on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm (16.5 × 11.7 in), 2026 Landscape sheet of near-empty white paper carrying faint grey and mauve ghost-scribbles, punctuated by a few hot flares of orange, red and yellow — one low on the left, one at the centre, one at the upper right. Sparse and airy, the emptiness doing most of the work.No. 167Pastel on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm (16.5 × 11.7 in), 2026 All-over abstract chalk drawing: a web of long curved lines in salmon pink, dark blue and yellow-green, each ridge caught with a white highlight, spread edge to edge over a clouded blue and grey-pink ground. Three large arcs cross in a knot at the centre. Like a leaded window of milky glass — cool, even and quietly luminous.No. 135Chalk on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in), 2026 Blue field in two temperatures: dry-scrubbed teal bands and a soft sage cloud above, fat opaque cerulean smears below, thin dry veils of teal dragged down the right. A bright green pencil scribble crosses a clearing of bare paper at the centre. Many kinds of mark living together in one cool, aquatic light.No. 91Pastel and pencil on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in), 2026 Dense weave of dark teal and navy with a pink ribbon snaking through the lower centre and a second pink diagonal at the upper left, flecked with gold. Luminous through its density.PushkinOil on canvas, 34 × 50 cm (13.4 × 19.7 in), 2026 Dense, all-over abstraction. Muscular teal and blue-grey strokes pile up at the centre over a scratched, pale ground, with flecks of yellow near the top and small touches of pink below. Energetic and churning, a little stormy.TannerOil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm (23.6 × 31.5 in), 2026 Abstract oil built from scraped, overlapping blocks of paint — salmon pink, pale blue, cream and ochre — over a deep maroon ground. The layered, weathered surface feels like a worn, sunlit wall. Quietly rich and meditative.No. 23Oil and acrylic on canvas, 70 × 100 cm (27.6 × 39.4 in), 2026