Bas Dirks

Portrait pastel drawing: loose horizontal strata of scribbled colour stacked edge to edge down a white sheet — pale yellow, orange and thin red, threaded by a single heavier blue line that surfaces, sinks away and returns. Airy and light, the paper breathing between the strokes.No. 155Pastel and chalk 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.No. 75Oil on canvas, 34 × 50 cm (13.4 × 19.7 in), 2026 Diptych of two pencil-and-pastel sheets on white. Left: three wiry figure-like tangles in blue and black, open contours over graphite ghost-lines, legs trailing off the sheet. Right: the same three presences filled with mass — turquoise, ultramarine and violet packed into dense knots over brown-black. Sketch and chord, side by side.3, beforePencil and pastel on paper, 59.4 × 42 cm (23.4 × 16.5 in), 2026 Large abstract painting in a warm, glowing field of yellow, ochre and orange shot through with red. Dense black and dark-green scribbled strokes loop across the whole surface and gather into a heavy tangled mass on the right. Turbulent and restless, yet luminous.Why Is Your Son on a Cross?Oil on canvas, 120 × 100 cm (47.2 × 39.4 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 Translucent abstract chalk drawing in watery blue-greens: a cluster of overlapping, softly modelled lobes like jellyfish bells or pebbles under water, drawn with searching, repeated blue contours doubled in salmon pink. Loose red and blue scribbles show through the veils, and the forms dissolve into pale yellow-green at the edges. Layered, aquatic and alive.No. 134Chalk on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in), 2026 Large dark abstract oil painting: a blue-black column plunges from the top through a dense storm of brushwork, with windows of deep blue opening behind the black. Rust and Venetian red masses anchor the upper right and lower edges, small flashes of pure red spark through, and a system of thick white impasto strokes climbs from the bottom left through the centre like light breaking in. Turbulent, deep and nocturnal.No. 140Oil on canvas, 80 × 100 cm (31.5 × 39.4 in), 2026 Landscape sheet swept by parallel diagonal strokes — ultramarine, cobalt and turquoise driving up to the right, with lemon and green flashes breaking through the weave and salmon undertones inside it. The storm thins toward the lower right, where the paper takes over. Pure momentum, drawn at speed.YPencil and pastel 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 Vertical canvas: a scrubbed field of yellow ochre and cadmium holds the left two-thirds, white ground breathing through, while a broken navy column runs the right edge and a dark green-black floor closes the bottom. A red figure strides at the centre; a second red presence glows inside the dark column like an ember. Field, mass and figure in one warm-cool engine.EgliseOil and acrylic on linen, 37.1 × 60 cm (14.6 × 23.6 in), 2026 Abstract chalk drawing in silvery greys: a dense weave of modelled planes suggests a standing figure, a teardrop head resting on shoulders at the top. Long white chalk strokes cut across the volumes and anchor in neighbouring planes; muted blue, red and yellow accents thread through, gathering in a spiralling basket of lines at the bottom. Metallic, bodily and quietly tense.No. 137Chalk on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in), 2026 Portrait pastel drawing: dense horizontal bands of scribbled colour packed edge to edge down the sheet — yellow, red, dark green and blue laid over one another at full pressure, leaving only slivers of white paper between the strata. Saturated, insistent, almost woven.No. 154Pastel and chalk on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in), 2026 Soft square chalk drawing: a drifting cluster of overlapping rings in pale yellow-green and cool blue with traces of rust, like frogspawn or soap bubbles, gathered into a rounded cloud on white paper. Some rings spiral at their centres; the whole mass hovers — dry, weightless and ghostly.No. 145Chalk on paper, 29.7 × 29.7 cm (11.7 × 11.7 in), 2026