Being in compliance with free summer moods, the exhibition hall of SEB Ühispank is this time at the disposal of playful and childishly naïve paintings of a self-taught artist. An autodidact, having been acting in an environment that is totally far from arts, could be regarded quite a unique phenomenon in the Estonian artistic landscape. Peet Toome (born in 1940), having a 40-year length of service as a car repair person, arrived at active creative activity only during the years of carefree pension time. But Toome, having been named by Mark Soosaar the Estonian own Picasso, has been completely taken in by arts already since his childhood, collecting knowledge and emotions from art books and exhibitions.

The fact that Toome has not acquired a classical art-related education and also the fact that he arrived at painting not in his first youth, adds to his works a totally new dimension and value. He approaches creation as a clean sheet, without any prejudice or previous knowledge. His works could be characterized by such words as simplicity, purity, sincerity, honesty, childishness, playfulness and joyfulness. As a tabula rasa the artist returns to his roots, to the primeval period, when deep internal wisdom was rendered by figures that seem primitive for us.

Title of the exhibition and also the most important work of the exhibition, "Minu oma maailm” ("My own world”) gives us the most direct hunch, where Toome gets the themes for his works from – and this is his own world. While painting, the artist expresses his daily absorbed energy, moods and feelings. By working according to the automatism method, there is no concrete vision born in his head prior to the actual accomplishment of a piece, how the work should look like - his hand works freely, not depending on the will. The artist quickly makes a sketch and thereafter paints the figures full in acrylic paints. For him certainly on the first position is the line, only after that comes the play with colour and form. And from colours Toome only uses happy and bright hues, as according to his words there is so much ugly and bad around us, there is no need to produce more of it voluntarily. Besides, the accomplished works afterwards also influence their creator.

Toome's favourite motifs and characters are people and their psychology. With his paintings the artist wants to get under the skin of people in order to see things that are concealed deeply inside the. Peet Toome's creation has also been influenced to a considerable extent by Jung's theory of psychoanalysis and the concept of subconsciousness that has influenced his work as archetype characters. 

During the autumnal period of peregrinating souls also Toome is "overcome by the muse” and his soul just forces him to grab the brush and reveal his ideas and emotions on the canvas, but the sunny summer days are so ideal for collecting one's thoughts and why not also exposing the numerous works that have been made in the course of years.