Lilac Landscape may refer to more than just the beauty of the natural physical world, with protean colours and panoramic sweep but also that of the human condition, of the feminine forms – lazy, laidback and slender. Done when based in Adelaide where he was teaching Art then, it plays on wave-like strokes with crescendo curls on either end to project sinuous shapes and movements, with tonal pastel shades for an ambiguous foreground-distance perspective. This 1982 painting of the artist expresses the lyrical quality that is typical of Jolly Koh’s work at its best.