Bas Dirks

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 · 120×100 cm · 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.Twenty-threeoil and acrylic · 70×100 cm · 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.Eighteenoil · 60×80 cm · 2026 Soft grey-blue and mauve field crossed by sweeping, cursive strokes of bright blue, like wind or handwriting drifting across the top. A dense coral-pink knot of scribbled marks sits in the lower left. Airy and lyrical, cool blues against warm pink.Canaanoil · 100×80 cm · 2026 Small, thickly painted square. A tangled knot of dark blue-black and white brushstrokes crowds the left against a hot ground of coral, orange and red, with a band of blue along the bottom. Compact and intense, heavy with paint.Seventeenoil, ecoline, acrylic · 20×20 cm · 2026 Bold dark-brown and black brushstrokes cross like bare branches over a pale, mottled ground tinted with faint blue, a heavy dark mass anchoring the top-left corner. Stark and graphic, calm but wintry.Thirty-eightoil on paper · 21×29.7 cm · 2026 Pencil drawing on white paper: a restless tangle of looping, jagged graphite lines that thickens into a dense storm at the centre and thins to faint, ghostly marks toward the edges. Nervous, kinetic energy in plain grey on white.Forty-threepencil on paper · 29.7×42 cm · 2026 Acrylic and pencil on white paper. An open, all-over scatter of pale blue washes and ochre-yellow strokes across white, with two hot orange knots anchoring the left and thin graphite lines wandering throughout. Airy and improvisational, quietly energetic.Forty-sevenacrylic and pencil on paper · 29.7×42 cm · 2026 Sparse, minimal painting on near-white. A few crimson and magenta strokes arc into loose, sail-like shapes, two small solid red squares float above, and faint pink stamp-like marks sit at the lower left. Light, quiet and tentative.Thirty-sevenoil on paper · 21×29.7 cm · 2026