Sweet dreams are made of these. A luscious landscape in soft golden hues stretching beyond the eyes’ ends, reminiscent of the resplendence of the Song Dynasty in China where arts and literature flourished in Neo-Confucianism glory. Its stillness animated. A paean of placid tranquility, the mind calmed, and embalmed in frozen time. A loose calligraphic line cavorts across a stunted nebulous mass while a slanted blob breaks the smooth veneer. A dark horizon separates the yellow pinkish top; and then the silence, the peace. Jolly Koh’s defining moment is his 2017 milestone exhibition in Kuala Lumpur celebrating 60 years of painting, marked by a presentable coffee-table publication. It was organised by Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers. It marks his twin achievements straddling academia and painting practice. Apart from his pedagogical writing, Jolly Koh had taught Art in Malaysia (ITM, Gaya College in Sabah and back at MSC College later) and Australia (12 years, ending as a senior lecturer at TAFE College in Adelaide). He was educated in the United Kingdom (Hornsey and London University) and the United States (Indiana University, Ed.D and Msc, where he even taught Masters students for a year). His early prominence was as one of the Magnificent 7 abstract artists in the GRUP exhibition held at the AIA Building, Kuala Lumpur, in 1967. His last solo, Jolly@80, was held in January 2022.