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This is Jolly Koh at his most tempestuous, showing riotous lunges of colours, with a whorl of flaming red in all its incandescent hues, and mellowed somewhat by pockets of yellow with a few lolling stems on the right. It's like a volcanic outburst, ejaculatory, ecstatic and seemingly unrestrained and so intense, a spectacle of awe and beauty. Such flamboyance could be seen in his Red and Blue Nebula (2015, which stretches from 76cm x 608cm!) and Pencipta Kupu-Kupu (2011), but not with such devil-may-care derring-do. Artist-academician Jolly Koh first excelled in the legendary Magnificent 7 GRUP exhibition in Kuala Lumpur in 1967, and is best remembered for is milestone survey exhibition, Jolly Koh @ 76 (White Box, Publika, KL) in 2017, which was marked by a 350-page coffeetable book. It was organised by Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers. His tutelage was at the Hornsey College of Art in London (national diploma in design, 1962), London University (teacher's certificate, 1993), Indian University in the United States (Doctor of Education and Master of Science, under a Fulbright scholarship, 1975 and 1973, and was also a teaching associate). He had taught briefly at the Mara Institute of Technology and Sabah's Gaya College before teaching Art in Melbourne and Adelaide and then back to Malaysia at the MSC College (Now SeGi College).