Can your ever dream it, a night like this? As light dims in the distant yonder, an orangey crimson sky makes a gorgeous splash from the loving brushes of Jolly Koh, the supreme colourist unabashedly producing “beautiful and moving pictures”, and things get animated and cavort in the near front. Imagine the lilting ivory keys from Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat major, Op 9 No. 2, with its sonorous rhythms making the strains of a wide-awake lullaby. The soothing waves lapping and the cool wind rustling through your ears. Yes, on a night like this, lovers embrace with caressing whispers, and everything lies between remembrance and forgetfulness. Jolly Koh was schooled in the finest art institutions in UK and the USA — Hornsey College of Art and London University; and Indiana University (Fulbright scholarship for his Masters, and was made teaching associate too). He taught briefly in Malaysia before teaching in Melbourne and then Adelaide in Australia for most of his 20 years there. On his return to Malaysia, he taught at the MSC College (now SEGi) from 2000 to 2004. He was accorded a milestone late-survey exhibition by Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers at MAP Publika Kuala Lumpur in 2017, celebrating 60 years of painting since his first solo at the British Council Kuala Lumpur in 1957 at the age of 16! It was accompanied by the publication of a fine book (Jolly Koh @ 76) of his life paintings.