True naive art begins when an artist creates original works of art. The clue of this art is concealed not in its technical methods, but in the author's mentality. Something invisible is ever-present in-between him and the canvas, it twists the likeliness, to which his Talent, his natural artistic instinct is inclining.
   Naive painter creates his own world. He takes this world as real, in which he, himself exists. That's what Elena Volkova tells about it: "What I intend to paint is always with me. I see all at once on the canvas. When I'm working I treat all the objects I paint as precisely, until I feel they are becoming alive under my brush..."
   Her picture is partly a still-life with vegetables, fruits and grey-fish in the basket, a somewhat a family scene with the child, for whom all the gifts are meant. But indeed it is a world of a fairy-tale, where there are living the blue frogs, the boiled grey-fish, hurrying up to leave the nest, a newly-born chick, sitting on the strangely non-cracked egg.