 Created by the American artist Nall, the N.A.L.L. Art Association ( Nature Art & Life League), offers artistic training to young artist apprentices and creates an international cultural life sponsoring exhibitions, conferences, concerts and charities. The N.A.L.L. is open to artists of all callings : painters, sculptors, writers, musicians ...
Situated on a nine acre estate in a wooded valley in Vence, 5 studios are available, together with a museum-studio designed and built by Nall.
He willingly describes himself as a "man of extremes". For years, he has collected eclectic materials from around the world which are mixed into each one of his works. The Museum vibrates with past centuries and styles. The floors, painted in trompe-l'oeil, blend with Indian sculpted doors from the XIIth, XVth and XVIth centuries.
In the entrance to the Museum the beams of the ceiling and fireplace are from the Gould residence in Cannes, Matisse tiles and a Charlie Lucas sculpture face a stained-glass window of St. Maurice salvaged from the Cathedral in Algiers. In the courtyard dining room, Syrian mosaics dating from 2000 B.C. mirror the olive groves, with the Mediterranean Sea shimmering beneath the foothills of the Alps. A magical place that has been a source of inspiration for his works.
"Inspired by the material, haunted by the spiritual" confides, Nall, explaining the presence of eyes and bones in many of his painting : "the eye of God, watches us all the time and is a symbol of all religions. The bone is the structure and fouindadtion of Man's truth and all that which will remain of him."
With over 300 one-man shows, Nall at 58. has created two foundations, one in Vence (France) and the other in Alabama (USA). The foundations sponsor and instruct young apprentice artists, and often sponsor musicians and writers, as well as instruct the viewer as to how his works are created.
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