Bas Dirks

Portrait pastel sheet. A high cluster of yellow and orange loops arcs across the upper half, with paler yellow strokes falling under it and a faint pink smudge in the lower right. Warm, open, the lower sheet almost empty.No. 216Pastel on paper, 21 × 29.7 cm (8.3 × 11.7 in), 2026 Landscape pastel sheet, mostly bare paper. Blue scribble in three clusters: a long left-hand sweep with a small yellow-purple-green knot at its crown, a vertical blue mass right of centre, and a dense navy knot in the lower right. Thin graphite and pale blue filaments wander the gaps. Cool, open, one warm spark.No. 212Pastel on paper, 59.4 × 42 cm (23.4 × 16.5 in), 2026 Landscape A2 sheet, mostly pale paper. White charcoal loops sit brighter than the sheet, densest in the lower right, with hook-like strokes on the left. Magenta and blue diagonals sweep toward the right; a peach patch sits high of centre; graphite and a few red flicks punctuate the field. Airy and high-key, the white doing the light.No. 226Pastel and white charcoal on paper, 59.4 × 42 cm (23.4 × 16.5 in), 2026 Two Hundred SixNo. 206Barbecue charcoal and oil on paper, 70 × 50 cm (27.6 × 19.7 in), 2026 Two Hundred SevenNo. 207Barbecue charcoal and oil on paper, 70 × 50 cm (27.6 × 19.7 in), 2026 Two Hundred FiveNo. 205Barbecue charcoal and oil on paper, 70 × 50 cm (27.6 × 19.7 in), 2026 One Hundred Ninety-sevenNo. 197Pastel on paper, 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6 in), 2026 Landscape sheet of near-white paper, very pale throughout. A grey-blue hatched smear falls through the middle from upper left to lower right, carrying small graphite marks along it like a line of handwriting and ending in one black wedge low at the centre. Left of it, pale yellow arcs stack into a loose vertical cluster threaded with thin pink and coral filaments and a few orange hooks; two small orange loops hang alone in the upper right, and the right third is almost empty paper with only a few tiny flecks. Faint, airy and warm, with one cool diagonal holding it together.No. 186Pastel and pencil on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm (16.5 × 11.7 in), 2026 Sparse landscape sheet, mostly bare white paper. Right of centre a frame of blue uprights and red rails carries a broad orange chute that flares and curls at its foot without touching any ground. Left of it a cluster of blunt red glyphs and a knot of grey pencil scribble hover unanchored; violet zigzags stand in a green wash at the lower left, a single navy diagonal falls away to the right, and a soft yellow mass lights the upper right corner.No. 180Pastel on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm (16.5 × 11.7 in), 2026 Landscape sheet of near-empty white paper carrying faint grey and mauve ghost-scribbles, punctuated by a few hot flares of orange, red and yellow — one low on the left, one at the centre, one at the upper right. Sparse and airy, the emptiness doing most of the work.No. 167Pastel on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm (16.5 × 11.7 in), 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.StierPastel on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm (16.5 × 11.7 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.PushkinOil on canvas, 34 × 50 cm (13.4 × 19.7 in), 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.TannerOil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm (23.6 × 31.5 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