 At the opening of one of the exhibitions, an Irkutsk-based art critic Paletskaya nicknamed Tomilovsky ‘the worshipper of the sun’, which was immediately picked up by some of his colleagues.Tomilovsky acknowledged that, indeed, the Sun was one of his favourite objects to depict in his paintings, especially during the post-war years.The art critics wrote that it seemed like Tomilovsky lived ‘closer to the sun’, admired it, and transferred its shining rays onto his painting.