As light dims, the natural colours outdoor are suffused with little streaks, yet forming clusters of different hues in sections. Sky, sea and land go through magical transformations with ephemeral finality: a flight of wings, flower buds clasping like a Venus flytrap…the inexorability of a pulled curtain / blanket, Slumber. Eventide cometh with a colourful flourish, the trademark orangey luminosity weighing lightly on the eyelids in the chameleon colour changes. Jolly Koh’s Evening Glow is an evocative lullaby mood piece even for those who think landscape… Jolly Koh’s career as artist-academician is as flamboyant as his canvas colours. Hornsey and an art teacher’s certificate in another British institution in the early 1960s, followed by a Masters in Indiana, he had taught at the Mara Institute of Technology and Gaya College in Sabah, before a long teaching stint in Australia, in Melbourne and then Adelaide, ending up as senior lecturer at TAFE College (1976-1988). After two decades, he returned to Malaysia to teach again and later concentrated fulltime into painting. He was given a memorable major survey exhibition in 2017 by Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers, at Publika, where he celebrated 60 years of painting since his first solo at the British Council Kuala Lumpur (1957) and which was commemorated with the publication of a comprehensive book of his life paintings.