Ronald Ophuis is one of the artists who, at the end of the twentieth century, has chosen to work in this introverted medium. Dog-gedly he persists in the search for a position which will endow his painting with a greater significance. Ophuis achieves this by placing the relation of painting to reality at the forefront of his practice…
"Ophuis doet een poging de ervaring van het tragische, die is weggevallen in onze moderne tijd, te achterhalen en een plaats te geven in zijn schilderijen…