A luscious landscape stretching from ear to ear with the 'Road To...' kicker. To Malacca, To Ipoh, To Cameron... It's the journey on the highway, not the destination, where an imprint of a disappearing, passing image registers with poetic charm, recollected in tranquility at home or a makeshift studio. On top a hillier stretch in moss cadmium green mixture with the plain busking in golden yellow hues. To Dr. Jolly Koh, the enjoyment or exhilaration of art is in its intrinsic beauty and the celebration of human values. On record, there's one other in similar vein with the same title, but measuring 93cm x 112cm, and dated 1997 (Jolly @ 83, p.212), with the emphasis on the wavy red clouds in the sky. Such trademark panorama is evident in works like Adelaide Morning and Malacca Sunrise painted in years thereabouts. Dr. Jolly Koh is an eternal pilgrim of Beauty, a voluptuary of colours on canvas, and in mind, a sharp brash intellectual. His tutelage had stood him well: Hornsey College of Art, London; London University's Institute of Education; Indiana University, United States (MSc, Ed.D, Masters). In 2017, he celebrated 60 years of painting in a late-survey exhibition organised by Henry Butcher Auctioneers. He was given his first solo at the age of 16 at the British Council Kuala Lumpur in 1957. One of the Magnificent 7 of Malaysian Art in the GRUP exhibition in 1967, and Re-GRUP in 2017. His latest solo Jolly @ 83: An Exhibition Of Recent Paintings By Jolly Koh (organised by Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers) in November 2024 received good responses.