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Drawings & paintings
The paintings first, then the drawings in colour, then the pages of the Star Man sketchbooks (14 × 9.5 and 16.5 × 11.5 cm), hung by what they show: from what grows out of the earth, through creatures, faces and the eye, up to the sky and the mandalas. And at the end, a work made for you alone. Tap a work to see it up close and zoom into the lines.
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The artist
B-ART Star Man is about manifestation: giving inner ideas a form, with the Star Man as the signature of the person who brings them into the world.
For me, the B stands for Manifestation: the moment when something inner becomes visible in the world. That meaning is personal, but it is rooted in the older symbolism of Beth/Bet, meaning “house,” and in its associations with containment, duality and creation. In B-ART, the B therefore represents the space in which an idea can take form, while ART is the act of bringing that form into existence. The figure replacing the A is the Star Man: my personal symbol, linked to my name and to the human figure standing between imagination and the created work. The Star Man is also the signature I place beneath my works, making the logo both a name and a mark of authorship.
Mission
My mission is simple: I want to make my world a better place, and inspire others to do the same.
I do that by employing, supporting and mentoring people. Through my art, I share a glimpse of how I see, feel and experience the world around me.
I try to look at ordinary things with the wonder and curiosity of a child seeing them for the first time, and turn them into small works of art.
A simple mission, but not an easy one.
The boundary that lets the invisible take form
The letter B is a symbol of manifestation.
Historically, B traces back to the ancient Semitic letter Beth, meaning house. A house creates a boundary: an inside and an outside. Symbolically, that boundary is what allows something to exist as a distinct form.
B is also the second letter. One can represent unity; two introduces distinction. Self and other. Light and dark. Inner and outer. Spirit and matter. That duality may look like separation, but it also makes relationship, experience and transformation possible.
So B can be seen as the movement from the invisible into the visible.
First there is possibility.Then a boundary appears.Within that boundary, something can develop.What was formless takes form.What was hidden becomes visible.
This is why the symbolism of B connects naturally with the house, the womb, the vessel and birth. They all describe the same archetypal process: something is contained, transformed and eventually brought into existence.
In Hebrew tradition, this symbolism becomes even stronger. Bet is the second letter, and the Torah begins with Bet in Bereshit, “In the beginning.” Symbolically, creation begins with the creation of a space in which existence can appear.
So the deeper story of B is not simply “two” or “house.” It is:
Unity becomes distinction.Distinction creates a boundary.The boundary creates a space.Within that space, possibility becomes form.
In one word:
MANIFESTATION
The act of manifestation
Art is exactly this process made visible. Something that initially exists only as sensation, memory, imagination, fear, beauty, confusion or intuition is given a boundary. It becomes a drawing, a shape, a colour, an object or an image. Something from an inner world crosses into the outer world.
In that sense, B and ART belong together.
B is the possibility of manifestation.ART is the act of manifestation.
There is another layer hidden in B-ART: it contains Bart, but separating it as B-ART reveals something that the ordinary name conceals. It can even be read as “be art.” The pseudonym therefore becomes not only a name but almost an instruction: don’t merely produce art; allow the distinction between artist and artwork to become less absolute.
Be art.
Between the infinite and the finite
Star Man is personal because it refers back to the family name, but symbolically it reaches far beyond the individual artist.
We are made of stardust. That is not poetry, it is physics. Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones and of iron in our blood was made inside a star, long before the Earth was born. Only hydrogen is older: it comes from the beginning itself.
When the largest stars die, they explode. Those explosions scatter everything the stars have made across space, into clouds of gas and dust from which new stars are born, and planets, and in the end people.
Without the exploding stars, there would be no human.The star had to breakfor the man to be made.
So the star and the man are not two different things. The man is what the star became.
But the star has always been more than matter. For as long as people have looked up, the star has stood for what lies beyond us: the light, the guide, the source, the infinite. And the man is matter that can wonder: a body of stardust that looks back at the sky and asks where it comes from.
That is the Star Man: the connection between the physical and the metaphysical. Made of the same material as the stars, and carrying the same question that makes people look up. Between the cosmic and the human, the infinite and the finite, what cannot be contained and the individual who tries to give part of it form.
And that is precisely what an artist does.
The artist stands somewhere between an inner universe that cannot fully be explained and the limited material available to express it. Even that material, the carbon in the ink and the hand that holds the pen, was once part of a star.
Stardust, giving form to what it sees.
From the infinite, through the human, into form.
In one word
MANIFESTATION
Contact
Questions about a piece, a commission, a print in another size, or just a word about the flow: write, and I answer myself.
Originality, inspiration and AI
Everything here is made by me. Nothing is made in a vacuum.
I see things, and they come back in my work: sometimes directly, sometimes without my noticing. Sometimes that is a landscape or a mushroom; sometimes it is another artist's drawing. I use AI too, not only for the visuals of this site but as inspiration and as a partner to think with. I would rather say that out loud than pretend otherwise. Full transparency and full disclosure is what I strive for, with respect for every artist and creator in the world. If you recognise your work in mine, write to me. We will talk, and I will make it right.
Originality and authorship. All works of art shown and offered on this site are original works created by B-ART STAR MAN and are protected by copyright under the Dutch Copyright Act (Auteurswet), the Berne Convention and the applicable laws of other countries. Unless stated otherwise, the artist is the sole author and holder of the rights in these works.
Inspiration. Like all art, these works are made in dialogue with the world. They may be inspired by things the artist has seen, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly, and this may include other works of art, drawings, images and designs by others. Where another work has been a source of inspiration, the resulting work is an independent, transformative creation of the artist. No work on this site is intended to copy, reproduce or imitate the protected work of any other person, and no infringement of any third party's rights is intended.
Notice and response. The artist respects the intellectual property of all artists and creators. If you believe that a work on this site infringes a copyright or other right that you hold, please contact the artist at flow at bartstarman.com, stating which work is concerned, the work you believe it infringes, and your name and contact details. Every such notice is examined in good faith and answered without undue delay. Where a claim is justified, the artist will take appropriate action, which may include changing the work, taking it offline, crediting the source or reaching another agreement with the rights holder.
Use of artificial intelligence. The artist is transparent about the use of AI tools. AI has been used in creating the visual presentation of this website and its moving gallery, and the artist also uses AI as a source of inspiration and as a conversation partner in developing ideas. The physical works themselves (drawings and paintings) are made by hand by the artist. Where AI has had a direct part in the making of a specific work, this is stated with that work.
Rights of visitors and buyers. The purchase of an original or a print transfers ownership of that physical object only. It does not transfer the copyright or any licence to reproduce, distribute, publicly display or create derivative works, except for private, non-commercial use. Images on this site may not be used without the artist's prior written permission.
No waiver, governing law. Nothing in this notice waives any right of the artist. This notice is governed by Dutch law. It is written in good faith and is not a substitute for legal advice; the artist reserves the right to amend it.
How this site works
You don't need any of this. It is here for when you are curious.
Who sells. Steerneman Beheer B.V., trading as B-ART STAR MAN, KvK 87320789, VAT NL864264422B01. Contact: flow at bartstarman.com. The business address is shown in the checkout, just before you pay, and comes with your order: in the order confirmation and on your order page.
Ordering and paying. You order on this site and pay through Mollie, with iDEAL, a card or another method it shows. The purchase is made when your payment has come in; you then get an order number, a link to follow your order, and a confirmation by email. Works can also be bought by email: ask about a work and the artist arranges it with you. Prints are sold one per order, one of each work per person, and at most five per person in 30 days (the same email address or the same delivery address counts as one person), so that as many people as possible can own a work; an order beyond that is not accepted and nothing is charged, and the artist is glad to arrange more by email. A work of your own is arranged by email: what it will be, its price and its delivery are agreed there before you pay. That a work shows as available is not a promise that it still is, and obvious mistakes on the site, such as a clearly wrong price, do not bind us.
Prices. In euros, including VAT. Shipping is shown before you pay. Every original is a unique, signed work.
Delivery. Prints are made to order by our print studio (Prodigi) and shipped from the studio nearest to you, usually within 7 working days, with track and trace (to the UK by standard post, untracked); you get it by email as soon as the print studio sends the parcel. Originals are packed and sent by the artist within 5 working days, tracked and insured; the artist lets you know when yours is on its way. A work travels at our risk until it has been delivered to you.
If we cannot deliver. Sometimes an order cannot be carried out: an original may be damaged or lost before it reaches you, or sold elsewhere at the same moment, the print studio may be unable to make or send a print, or a parcel may not be able to reach your address. Whatever the reason, if we cannot deliver your order or part of it, we let you know as soon as possible, cancel it, and refund everything you paid for it, shipping included, within 14 days and in the way you paid. With that refund the matter is settled: no further rights can be derived from the cancelled order, neither to compensation nor to delivery at a later time, except where mandatory law provides otherwise.
Limited editions. Prints are sold in limited editions: each work is printed in each size and on each paper only as many times as its edition says (for example 50 in A4 and 25 in A3), and once that edition is complete, no more are made of it in that size and paper. Each print has its own number, given in the order in which prints are paid for, and comes with a certificate of authenticity with that number, in the buyer's name, to see and print online. A number lapses when its print is sent back or paid back, and is never given out again. If a payment comes in when the edition is already complete, the order is cancelled and the full amount refunded.
Prints are made to order. Every print is made by our print studio after you order it, of the work, in the size and on the paper you choose: there is no stock.
Changing your mind. If you buy as a consumer, you may withdraw from the purchase of a print or an original within 14 days of the day you, or someone you named, received it, without giving a reason.
Form for withdrawal (fill it in and send it only if you want to withdraw). To: Steerneman Beheer B.V., trading as B-ART STAR MAN, [the return address in your order confirmation], flow at bartstarman.com. I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my contract for the sale of the following goods: [the print or the original, and the order number]. Ordered on [date] / received on [date]. Name: […]. Address: […]. Signature (only if this form is sent on paper): […]. Date: […].
Damaged or not as ordered. If a work arrives damaged, or is not what you ordered, let us know as soon as you can, preferably within 14 days and with a photo. For a print you get a new one or your money back; for an original, your money back, or a repair if you prefer and it can be done. Your rights under the law when something is wrong with a purchase stay as they are.
Liability. Our liability for any damage in connection with an order is limited to the amount paid for that order, unless the damage was caused by our intent or gross negligence, or mandatory law provides otherwise.
Copyright. The copyright of every work stays with the artist. Buying an original or a print gives no right to reproduce it.
Law and complaints. Dutch law applies. If you live elsewhere in the EU, the consumer protection of your own country that cannot be set aside stays yours. A question or complaint: mail flow at bartstarman.com; you get an answer within 14 days.
What you hear. The flow can be accompanied by the B-ART STAR MAN playlist on SoundCloud. It is a selection of tracks by other artists, chosen by B-ART STAR MAN because they suit the experience of the works, and it plays in SoundCloud's own embedded player. The other sound options on this website (meditation, jungle, chakra & throat, solfeggio, elves, ambient, drone) are generated live in your browser by this website itself. They contain no music or recordings by others.
The music belongs to its makers. All rights in the music on the playlist stay with the artists and other rightsholders concerned. That includes the composition, the recording, the performance and the artist's name. B-ART STAR MAN does not own this music and claims no licence to it beyond what SoundCloud makes available. The music and the visual works are separate, independent works. Playing them together does not create a joint work, an adaptation or a remix, and the music does not become part of any artwork. Buying an original or a print never includes any right to music heard on this website. Where a work was inspired by music, that is a personal artistic response by B-ART STAR MAN, not an authorised adaptation of that music.
How SoundCloud is used. Music plays only through SoundCloud's official embedded player. This website does not copy, download, store, host or re-upload any audio; the music streams from SoundCloud. SoundCloud's Terms of Use provide that uploaders grant a limited licence to websites on which their content is shared or embedded through SoundCloud's players (see "Grant of license" and "Use of SoundCloud Players and Widget"). This website relies only on that licence, within the settings each uploader has chosen. The previous, next and shuffle buttons on this website only operate SoundCloud's own player. Music a visitor chooses under "Your own music" plays the same way, through SoundCloud's player, by that visitor's own choice; the link is kept in their own browser, not on this website (a short on.soundcloud.com link is only looked up, to find the full address). SoundCloud and the uploader decide whether a track is available. A track may be restricted or disappear without notice, and B-ART STAR MAN may change the playlist at any time.
How the image responds to the music. While a track plays, the moving image responds to it: faster and fuller with energetic music, slower and softer with calm music. To do this, the website uses only information that SoundCloud's player provides about the track: its waveform (the outline of its loud and quiet passages), its genre and its tempo. The website does not record, analyse, alter or store the audio itself. The visual response is created live in your browser, is not saved or published, and does not change the music in any way. This website never uses your microphone.
No endorsement or collaboration. A track on the playlist does not mean that SoundCloud, the artist or any other rightsholder endorses, supports or works with B-ART STAR MAN, this website or the artworks. B-ART STAR MAN does not represent any musician. Any real collaboration will be named as such.
Credit. While the playlist plays, the name of the artist is shown below the title of the work, linked to the track on SoundCloud, and SoundCloud's player shows who made each track. If you like what you hear, please follow and support the artists there.
For artists and rightsholders. The point of pairing music with these works is to celebrate other people's creative work, not to take it. You may have made a track on the playlist or own rights in it. If you have a question or an objection, or simply don't want your music used this way, please contact the artist at flow at bartstarman.com and mention the track, your connection to it or to its rights, and what you would like: removal, a different credit, or something else. B-ART STAR MAN will reply as soon as possible. Where the request comes from the artist or an authorised rightsholder, B-ART STAR MAN will in principle remove the track from the playlist or from this website. A track may also be paused while a question is being looked into. Doing so is a courtesy and does not mean that any right was infringed.
Originals are packed flat or in a tube and sent tracked and insured by the artist. Prints are made to order and sent from the print studio nearest to you, with track and trace (to the UK by standard post, untracked). A print or an original you may send back to the artist within 14 days of receiving it (the return shipping is at your cost; a print rolled in a tube). If a work arrives damaged, send a photo: a print is replaced, an original refunded. If we cannot deliver an order, you get your money back in full. The details are in the terms of sale.
This site keeps no account and sets no tracking cookies. What you change under Settings stays in your own browser. The lens uses the camera on your device only; no image leaves your phone. The site runs on Cloudflare, which handles the connection and may log the usual technical data (IP address, pages requested) for security.
If you tick "Remember my details on this device" when you order, your delivery details are kept in your own browser for a next order, and nowhere else; untick it, or choose "Clear them", to remove them. To keep to one print of each work per person, a fingerprint of your email address and of your address (from which neither can be read back) is kept with the orders.
Your name, address and email are used only to answer you and to ship your order. They are shared with the payment provider and, for prints, with the print studio, and with nobody else. For a numbered print, your name is kept with its number in the register of the edition, the record behind its certificate of authenticity. No tracking cookies are set. You can ask at any time what is stored about you, and have it removed.
Every print, like every original, works with the lens: hang it, point your phone at it, and the work comes alive on your wall and takes you into its flow.
Giclée prints on archival, acid-free fine art paper, made to order from a high-resolution scan of the work and shipped from the print studio nearest to you. Sketchbook pages are printed at their true size or larger.
Every print is part of a limited edition: each work is printed only so many times in each size and paper, and never again once its edition is complete. Each print has its own number and comes with a certificate of authenticity in your name, with that number, which you can see, print or keep as a PDF from the link in your order mail.
On a big screen
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On your phone, open , go into the flow and tap . Choose this screen, or type its code.
Getting a code…
On a big screen
Let the flow go on on a TV, with this phone as its remote. On the TV, open in its web browser: it shows a code.
Screens on your network
Or type the code on the TV
Test site
Your order
Test shop: payments are not real and nothing is printed.
Your order
Test order: nothing was paid and nothing is printed.
Keep this page's address to look again later. Questions: flow at bartstarman.com, with your order number.
Scroll or pinch to zoom · drag to move · double-click to jump in
Your own music
Paste a link to a playlist, a track or a profile on SoundCloud. It plays in the flow, and the sound menu offers it as Your own music beside the B-ART STAR MAN playlist. It is kept in this browser, only for you.
Forgets everything you changed in this browser, your own music too, and plays the flow the way B-ART STAR MAN set it.
B-ART STAR MAN on your home screen
Opens full screen, like an app: the flow, the gallery and the lens one tap away.
B-ART STAR MAN is on your home screen: open it from there.
Keep it on this phone
Download the works, the flow and the lens once, and the app runs without internet: on a plane, in a field, at a show.
How long each work stays in the flow before it drifts on to the next one.
How a work moves on to the next one.
In order follows the order of the works; random wanders through all works before repeating one.
Visitors can still choose another sound, or none, at the entrance and in the flow.
How long each sound world stays before Mixed drifts to the next one.
The full address from the address bar (soundcloud.com/…); a short on.soundcloud.com link does not open in the player.
The link of the playlist that plays when the sound is set to the playlist.
How far the flow deepens when a visitor stays still: slower, larger waves, afterimages, a faint echo of the work, and more time per work. Mixed wanders between gentle and deep over the session.
Seconds of stillness until the flow is at its deepest.
Pace of deepeningSteady always deepens at the same rate; mixed speeds up and slows down over the session.
A journey rises to its deepest point about two-thirds of the way, comes back up, and comes to rest on the work you stayed with longest. It starts when you choose it.
Tap an effect to switch it on or off. Racing lines, colour fields and the 3D ghost follow the music: fast and full on with fast, driving music, slow and gentle with calm music and the site's own sounds.
Colour fields: how they fill Colour fields: colours How the effects comeMixed: a changing combination of effects, more of them as the flow deepens, chosen to suit the music, with a new mix for every new track. Building adds one after another over the session. One at a time and combinations give every work its own.
Now and then the flow lets go and a work stands still and sharp for two breaths.
The rhythm the image and the sound breathe with; a work moves on at the end of an exhale.
The small "depth 59%" next to the title in the flow. Only you see it.
How long the lens keeps looking at the work, how long it comes alive in place, and how long the vortex into the gallery takes.
Hang a work on your wall. One evening, open the lens and point your phone at it. The lines begin to breathe, the paper turns to light, and the work folds into a vortex that pulls you through, into its flow. Your living room is the gallery now.
It works on every original and every print, and on this screen.
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