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Painter and watercolourist, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, member of the Union of Artists of Russia A.M. Shchikalev comes from Gornaya Shoria (born in 1949), a small town of Tashtagol, from where he left to study in Omsk. Since 1976, after graduating from the art and graphic department of the Gorky State Pedagogical Institute, he has been teaching at the Kalachinsk Children’s Art School. Member of the Union of Artists since 1993.

Since 1978, he has been participating in regional, zonal and all-Russian exhibitions. Since the 1980s, still life has become his favorite genre. By building a series of objects in his compositions - jugs, samovars, bouquets of flowers, the artist not only accurately conveys the form, he creates a space, a color-saturated environment that expresses the author’s ideas and thoughts about human life on his native land.

The watercolor technique in the works of Anatoly Shchikalev evolves towards greater color and picturesqueness. The artist confidently wields a temperamental, sweeping brush, achieving a genuine expression of the real world, conveying its spiritual content. Turning to folk origins, immersion in the life and everyday life of a rural resident had a direct impact on the formation of the artist, his pictorial-plastic and figurative style.

The works of Anatoly Shchikalev are in museums in Omsk, Kaliningrad, Kurgan, in private collections in Bulgaria, Germany, etc.