Vladimiras Nikonovas

Vladimiras Nikonovas is an "assemblage" artist who lives and

works in the city of Jonava, Lithuania.

Steady girls, he's still got his shirt on.

In simpler terms, this means that basically he makes things

from junk with a particular penchant for bits of old watches

and clocks.  He can make time fly and has elevated the

old-fashioned mantle clock to dizzy new heights.

I can't find out much more about this geezer except that he

was born on 21st January 1962 which makes him an Aquarian.

This would explain his imagination, unpredictability and tendancy

to work "off-piste".

Since 1989 he's held many exhibitions of his work, not only in

his native country but also in Warsaw, Stockholm, Hamburg and

across the pond in 1997 in Chicago too.

But the Windy City posed no threat to his pieces as they are all

very sturdily made and even those determined gusts of wind straight

off Lake Michigan failed to ruffle the feathers or shimmy the

scales of his fabulous birds and fishes.

Now I'm going to get all arty, farty on you -

'the constant desire for harmony between inner and outer, shape

and form within a strict rationale brings Vlad's works to the

very brink of perfection and closer to the synonym of reality.

He creates images of life into which he plants a soul.

How's that for a bit of Long Doggery?  Probably easier just to

say - I like this bloke's work, it speaks for itself.