Vasilis N. Hatzivasilis was born in 1918 at the village Olympos of Karpathos, a place with its own intense cultural peculiarity, a special gem in the wondrous cluster of the modern Greek folk culture. He was the son of the folk painter and artist plasterer Nicholas N. Hatzivasilis, known as Morphinos, who worked in Karpathos, in Kasos, in Alexandria and in Smyrna in the late 19^th and the early 20^th century. Having served his apprenticeship with master craftsmen from Syros, who happened to work on Kasos island at that time, he consolidated his art work in the frame of a popular classicism and later on he passed his knowledge and his experience on his son.