Shevchenko Vasiliy V. lived in Lipetsk. He is the author of colourful pictures with fantastic subjects, as well as landscapes. The main collector of his works was the photographer I.V. Stin, who organized some of his personal exhibitions in Moscow in the 1980s. In his art, fantastic images of nature are combined with a lyrical feeling, he is closer in style to professional artists, but in terms of mentality – to naive ones