Nurit David was born in 1952 and studied art at HaMidrasha, the Art Teachers Training College in Ramat HaSharon, after which she lectured at the School of Art (Beit Berl College today) and the Art Department of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Texts and images are key elements in her work, and in the mid-1990s, she severed the texts from the visuals and used them as independent narratives. In her paintings, which tell the story of a family affair, we discover two subjects: landscape scenes with a harmonious and optimistic character, and portraits of the body with a disturbing and pessimistic character.

Within the enormous change that took place in her work, we see a clear move to illusory painting, wherein she gave up superficial modernism in favor of a more traditional metaphor. Her paintings are vivid and rich and she integrates a variety of painting styles on the same canvas, with touches of oriental art on the one hand and pop art on the other.