Bas Dirks

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.No. 114Oil and acrylic on linen, 37.1 × 60 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 Portrait sheet: fast graphite gestures drift down the page in a cursive slant, sparse loops at the top gathering into a dense storm-knot below centre. Dark pressured jabs ride over light rapid lines, the whole tangle held by bare paper at the edges.No. 99Graphite on paper, 29.7 × 42 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 A single knotted form in blues stands centred on white paper: smooth, interlocking rounded shapes drawn in crisp cobalt line and shaded with soft smoky blue, swelling and folding into one another like glass or flesh. Poised and complete, with a quiet bodily undertone.No. 124Pastel on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm, 2026 Looping colored-pencil lines on white paper: faint graphite loops underneath, red and crimson strokes carrying the weave, and darker slate-blue lines punctuating it. Three depths of line, nothing filled in — a tangle you look into, warm against cool.No. 84Pencil and colored pencil on paper, 29.7 × 42 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 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.No. 112Pencil and pastel on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm, 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, 120 × 100 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 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 Loose archipelago of blue forms drifting across white paper: rounded cells shaded in smoky ultramarine gather at the left, thin out into bare wandering contour lines toward the right, and one deep-blue band swings low through the middle. Open, buoyant and unhurried.No. 127Pastel on paper, 42 × 29.7 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 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 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 A single almond-shaped form floats centred on white paper, woven from long horizontal strands of cerulean, navy and teal with pink, cream and a flash of yellow-green threaded through. The strands converge to points at left and right, and an island of bare paper glows at the core — an eye, a seed, a nest.No. 123Pastel on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm, 2026