HI, I 'M ROELEKE

My story

Art as Truth, Freedom as Being.

Hi and welcome! I'm happy you're here. My name is Roeleke, sounds like Rulika, and I am born in the Netherlands. I am an artist and obsessed with truth & freedom.

I am driven by an insatiable curiosity about life's deepest questions: What is real and true? Who am I?

This curiosity has led me on a transformative journey across the globe. Leading to moments of profound clarity and navigated through many 'dark nights of the soul' challenges.

Through these experiences, I've come to realize that life isn’t about gaining something, but rather about dissolving the barriers that stands in the way of recognizing our inherent freedom. It's about acknowledging and accepting our humanity and life's blueprints, with all its twists, challenges, and surprises.

I've found that truth is beyond anything seen and superficial, revealing itself through deep listening, inquiry, self-expression, play, and life experimentation. This is why I paint and why I help people remember their nature by approaching life as a game we get to play.

From a young age, "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?" have been the questions on my mind. The quest for answers became the heartbeat of my life, encouraging me to explore the nature of reality and the essence of human existence.

My childhood was filled with vivid visions, clear knowings, and memories of lifetimes beyond this one. To me, these experiences felt natural, I assumed everyone had them. But the disinterested reactions of others soon revealed the contrast between my reality and the people around me.

As the years passed, my journey grew more confusing. I felt increasingly disconnected, not just from those around me, but from myself. Therapy and medication didn’t help; in fact, they made me feel more isolated. Then one day, in complete exhaustion and desperation, I surrendered—as if I had given up on life itself. And in that moment, everything became clear. I remembered. I was love and freedom itself, inseparable from anything or anyone.

This revelation transformed my life. For a time, I felt a peace and clarity that I couldn't describe nor explain.  I moved to a new city, fell in love, and lived fully. Life was just happening, like a dream, except I was wide awake to it.  But this sense of freedom was shaken by a traumatic experience that violated my personal boundaries, stirring up a well of shame and overwhelming inner turmoil,  leaving me desperate for answers and freedom once more.

In the years that followed, my quest intensified. During my third year of physical therapy studies, I took a break to travel the world and visit places from my recurring visions. The people I met and the places I visited provided pieces of my puzzle. They helped me reconnect with myself and realize the importance of letting go of any need for acceptance, validation, and control. Easier said than done, yet I felt the strength to keep following my inner guidance.

After returning, I felt the desire to share my experiences with others. Inspired, I initiated an awareness-expanding project for physical therapy students with the central theme "More Than Just a Body," supported by a teacher who believed in my vision. The project was a success, leading to events in six different countries and opening unexpected job opportunities at the university. And yet, despite this success… something was still missing. This wasn’t it.

My desire for truth, freedom, and answers once again led me to the far corners of the world. I participated in retreats and spiritual circles, sat in meditation for days, walked a pilgrimage, spent weeks alone and isolated in nature, learned from spiritual teachers, and lived in a community dedicated to 'enlightenment.'

Each experience deepened my perspective, yet every peak of bliss was met with a valley of shadows. I came to see that the pursuit of transcendence was futile without fully embracing my humanity—and that truth could only be found by following my own inner guidance, rather than prescriptions or practices that weren't fully my own. 

I realized my purpose wasn’t to chase the light but to recognize it in every present moment, no matter how dark the moment seemed to be. My struggles, traumas, pains, and challenges were not obstacles but essential parts of the journey—the very keys to liberation and freedom itself.

MY STORY

Free to express myself and experiment with life, to release all grasping and instead welcome and integrate the full multidimensionality of this blueprinted human experience.

"Spirituality," whatever that means, isn’t confined to the realms of the mystical but grounded and practical in everyday life, embodied and lived. And that is what I am devoted to. 

I’m here to share my art and journey, perhaps inspiring others to seek and discover truth—to play, express, and experiment—transcending the fixed ideas and conditioning that veil our true nature. 

a few things ABOUT ME

  • According to Human Design, I am a 3/5 manifestor.
  • Constantly creating new things is my life's fuel.
  • I see my paintings in meditations and dreams.
  • Passionate about the aesthetics of all things.
  • I've lived in 9 different countries
  • I was born with a caul on my head.
  • Coconut curry crab soup sends me to heaven.