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 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, 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.No. 92 & 93Pencil and pastel on paper, 59.4 × 42 cm, 2026 Edge-to-edge weave of navy and black brushstrokes over a pink, crimson and white ground. Every gap in the dark web glows warm, like light seen through branches at dusk. Dense, immersive and quietly radiant.No. 61Oil on gessobord, 40 × 50 cm, 2026 Polychrome tangle on white paper. Purple vertical bars run across the top like an arcade, a dense navy-black knot anchors the lower centre, with acid-green flicks, orange arches and a loose blue lattice weaving through. Airy at the edges, deep space inside a scribble.No. 56Oil on paper, 42 × 29.7 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.No. 23Oil and acrylic, 70 × 100 cm, 2026 Square sheet, mostly bare white paper. Three airy tangles of yellow pencil and pastel stand upright, each hovering in a faint wash of the same yellow — line and aura in one substance. Flowers drawn as if they don't yet know they are dying. The lightest of a series of three.No. 103Pencil and pastel on paper, 29.7 × 29.7 cm, 2026 Square sheet. Three hot orange scribble-heads on tall ghosted stems, over a whole under-atmosphere of pink-tan washes where earlier drawing was dissolved with water. The densest, warmest state of the series — decay as accumulation.No. 104Pencil and pastel on paper, 29.7 × 29.7 cm, 2026 Square sheet, mostly white. Three flowers droop, their yellow strands falling like tassels; pink washes halo the left flower, fade at the middle one and vanish at the right — the dying runs left to right across the sheet. The quietest and strangest of the series.No. 105Pencil and pastel on paper, 29.7 × 29.7 cm, 2026 Yellow pastel massed across the top half and running down the left flank, over white paper. Below the yellow, a cluster of fast brown-black smears settles like sediment, grey-blue showing through, with a white channel of bare paper between the two. Sunlit above, earthbound below.No. 89Pastel and pencil on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm, 2026 All-over field of blue dabs — navy through cobalt to pale sky — with white gaps glinting between strokes and small red flares low in the centre. A marine nocturne, shimmering and calm.No. 73Oil on canvas, 50 × 30 cm, 2026 Red and crimson masses knotted with black-green descend the right side in a rough diagonal, meeting a second dark register along the bottom. The left half is near-empty white paper, crossed only by faint terracotta ghost-strokes rising like stems. Confrontational colour against wide, breathing emptiness.No. 90Pastel and pencil on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm, 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, 2026 Dense navy and black brushstroke weave covering the whole panel, with red, pink and white glowing through the gaps and one vivid red window burning near the top centre. Darker and hotter than its sibling — embers under a night thicket.No. 62Oil on muspaneel, 30 × 40 cm, 2026 Diptych of two oil-pastel sheets in crimson and magenta on white. The left sheet is pale and ghosted — dispersed smudges of pink and smoke grey, marks almost lifted off the paper. The right gathers the same palette into one dense, scribbled knot of saturated reds. Exhale and inhale, side by side.No. 64 & 65Oil pastel and pencil on paper, 59.4 × 42 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.No. 18Oil, 60 × 80 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.No. 43Pencil on paper, 29.7 × 42 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.No. 38Oil on paper, 21 × 29.7 cm, 2026