The artist Dieter Duhm, 2006

„Regarding My Many Parallel Activities
For many years now I have been working together with a growing number of people to develop a working model for a planetary future without war. Solid social, ecological and technological concepts have already been developed. These concepts are to be assembled and developed further at selected places on earth, in order to establish concrete pilot models for a non-violent earth. This approach led to the creation of the research settlement Tamera in Portugal in 1995, as well as an international network for the establishment of healing biotopes and peace villages all over the world. This constituted research work in the scientific, social, sexual, spiritual and artistic areas. The time that remained for artistic activities was too short for doing continuous work. But I hope to soon be able to switch to my parallel world and to dedicate myself fully to the “Tao of art”.

In my life, there were three topics that always belonged together and that was love, art and
religion. I am not saying that my work already represents what I see as the deepest meaning of art and what I will be striving for during the coming years. Much so far occurred only in my head, and I did not have the time to realize it. This is especially true for a way of painting from a state of connectedness, finding the sacred and the eternal even in a little pebble. It is a kind of painting that comes from opening up fully to the substance of the world, giving it the brush in its hand so that it can consummate the transformation that we are all journeying towards. Some of my paintings and drawings have already been created in this way. The essence of this type of art is the joy of reconnecting with Creation. It is the reopening of the clogged channels through which the force flowed through our ancestors, a force that they needed to build stone circles and to answer the song of the world through temples, worship and art.
In this sense I believe that art belongs to the foundations of a new human culture.
We are an organ of Creation. The more I understand, the less I follow a private will. This is true both in Eros and in love.
What made Cézanne return, again and again, to paint his mountain, Mont Saint Victoire? And Amadeo Modigliani: what was he so in love with that he had to paint more or less the same nudes again and again? Here, in nature as well as in Eros and in the meeting of the sexes, there is still a sense of magic that is infinite, unredeemed and marvelous, and that will continue to seek us out until we are ready to understand…

out of: Man`s Holy Grail is Woman

Paintings

"Quasimodo and Esmeralda"	"The Twosome"	"Stream in Autumn"	"Early spring in Leuterstal"
"Landscape View"	"View of Mira"	"Meadow in June"	"Portuguese Summer"
"Sunrise in Front of My Tent"	"African Love Song"		"The Woman at the Beach"
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"Our mountain village "	"The Mouth of the Mira"	"Pond in Tamera"	"Beauty in May"
"Tree at the Road"	"Portuguese Summer 2001"	"River in Odeceixe "

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Watercolor

"Autumn Landscape"	"Village in Portugal"	"At Lake Constance"
"O Man! Take heed!..."

Drawings

"Nude drawing"	"Heike"	"Heike, Bodega"	"Heike Scratching Her Feet"