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At Nurit’s Gallery in Yesod Hama’ala flowers surround you from every angle and “speak” to you from every corner. In the Gallery you can find paintings of various sizes, with a blaze of color on canvas, wood or stones. The flower paintings awaken the senses of touch and smell, because you are suddenly transported to a field of flowers. The artist, Nurit Biderman, paints flowers in her unique way so that you can almost smell them, and you just want to reach out and pick them.
The artist Nurit Biderman is a fifth generation Israeli, descended from the Fishel-Solomon family, among the founders of Yesod Hama’ala in the Hula Valley. Nurit worked in the education field for many years as a teacher, educator, teachers’ counselor and school principal. Her success in the education system was commendable. Her many students and friends are amazed by her ability to express herself through her art. This is a new side of her about which they were not aware.
After retiring from the education system Nurit worked as the United Israel Appeal of Canada Galilee Panhandle Representative. She invested great efforts in helping create a Living Bridge between Canadian Jewish communities and the Galilee Panhandle residents.
Nurit’s spectacular paintings won over the hearts of Canadian friends, who chose to hang them in their homes, representing a small, authentic view of Israel.
Nurit grew up in the Galilee. She absorbed the scenery and kept them deep inside herself until one day when everything sprung forth and starting flowing like a veritable fountain. Nurit’s son Boaz was serving in the Army during the first Lebanon War, and she spontaneously started to draw as a way to release tension and anxiety that she experienced during that period.
Nurit Biderman’s paintings were shown in various exhibitions in Israel such as in Caesarea, where her paintings stood out amongst the other three artists because of her unique, bold colors. Nurit’s paintings were also exhibited at the Cultural Auditorium at Rishon LeZion, where the curator presented her as the most renowned painter of flowers in Israel; and at the Scots Hotel on the banks of the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret), where they were shown for the enjoyment of the visitors. Nurit held a one-woman exhibition at the Kiryat Shmona Cultural Hall, where visitors admired the intensity of her eye-catching paintings.
Many visitors to Nurit’s Gallery at Yesod Hama’ala share with her the emotions that her paintings evoke in them; they are extremely moved, and some even burst into tears, overwhelmed by powerful emotions. Some visitors feel that the flowers surrounding them fill their lungs with air and create a feeling of renewal and blossoming.
In Nurit’s Gallery Dvarim Yafim (Pretty Things) there is a vast variety of paintings of Galilee scenery and of flowers. Nurit paints on mirrors, stones and tiles, as well as natural and man-made wood. There is a large selection of paintings of various sizes.
