A cat clumsily balancing with so many limbs (like a crossbred ostrich, giraffe and camel combined), performing an awkward yoga? Perhaps, the artist Jolly Koh, given to more luscious transcendence of colours, is making a poke at some unsavoury character as he is known not to be suffering fools. A flibbertigibbet? He likes to do the occasional caricatures when something piques him. Born in Singapore and growing up in Malacca, Jolly Koh has been all around, to work and paint, and is also an art academician and intellectual. He’s an 8th generation Baba. He first studied for his National Diploma in Design at the Hornsey College of Art in London, and the Art Teacher’s certificate at the Institute of Education in London University. He taught briefly in Malaysia, at the Mara Institute of Technology in Shah Alam and Sabah’s Gaya College. He was awarded a Fulbright to do his Doctor of Education and Master of Science at the Indiana University in the United States in 1973-1975. He taught for several decades in Australia from 1976, first in Melbourne and when he quit, he was senior lecturer at the TAFE College in Adelaide. He returned to Malaysia to teach, but decided to become full-time artist, as his paintings are much sought after.