Vladimir Ilich Shchedrin was born in Voronezh in 1942. He was educated in the town of Penza.
Shchedrin paints landscapes depicting varying moods, times of day, and seasons of the year. His style varies. Sometimes his landscapes are soft and impressionistic; other pieces are brightly colored with the vibrant color applied with broad brush strokes.
Every year he goes to the Academic Dacha in the countryside outside Moscow where he paints for two or three months. This is the source of many of his landscapes. The works he paints at his dacha tend to be more naturalistic than the bright colors of some of his other paintings.When not at his dacha, Shchedrin lives in Voronezh and has exhibited his paintings in France, Germany, and the United States as well as Russia.
