Bas Dirks

Portrait sheet veiled in scumbled silver-grey: a yellow arc crowns the top, a magenta-red loop swings through the middle, and knots of navy and tangles of blue gather toward the lower half. Faint white strokes comb through the grey; bare white paper shows at the edges. Smoky, tangled, lit from within.
No. 243Pastel, ink and graphite on paper, 50 × 65 cm (19.7 × 25.6 in), 2026