"The landscape is a portrait and the portrait is a landscape. He is a unique artist who combines the past with the present and bewitchingly depicts existential questions. He stands in the midst of a world, flees from this world, and in a virtuoso way, brings a new, confronting world to life."

“Delrue’s work focuses on faces that are not really faces. These are memories of faces or shadows of human expression. They are executed in various media, of which pencil and watercolour are the most important. The palette is limited and plays out on the border between brown, blue and grey, supplemented by the inevitable red to emphasize details, introduce a scar, or emit a pool of blood.

Six drawings in two rows. In this case, six heads turned three quarters to the left or to the right. The silhouettes can be discerned, but their gender is unclear. The face remains blank, or one or two eyes are suggested. The gaze is trained upon infinity or turned uneasily towards the viewer. The individual is reduced to a non-identity. This is Ronny Delrue’s hazy image of humankind, one that expresses his quest for the essence of existence.”

(From the essay: Coming from the inside, facing the outside. Delrue’s journey of uncontrolled soul-searching and expression, Em. Prof. Dr. Katlijne Van der Stighelen, 2024)