Red is all-immersive, with profusions of power and passion. It is one Jolly Koh loves to play with and exploit, as can be seen in works like Calm Of The Red Dreaming (2006), Private Sunday X (2007), Red Nebula (2013) and Celestial Flora (2014), all with different trajectory of emotions. Formidable and foreboding as it is, red can also change perceptions like in Kazimir Malevich's Red Square, with the subtitle A Peasant Woman In Two Dimensions, one veering towards a kind of renunciation. Or on another tack, take Mark Rothko's Seagram murals, or the gorgeous drapery of Jan Van Eyck's Lucca Madonna. What is Jolly Koh's magical all-red palette to you? Jolly Koh is one of the Magnificent 7 of the GRUP fame - historic 1967 exhibition and 2017 reprisal. He is best remembered for his Jolly Koh@76 survey exhibition in 2017 hosted by Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers celebrating 60 years in art. It traced a career since his first solo in 1957 at the age of 16! And he has great academic credentials, to boot: National Diploma in Design at the Hornsey College of Art in London; Art Teacher's certificate at the Institute of Education in London University; and Doctor of Education and Master of Science at Indiana University, USA. After a brief stint teaching at the Mara Institute of Technology and Sabah's Gaya College, he taught in Melbourne and Adelaide, and back to Malaysia at the MSC College (now SeGi), before deciding to go fulltime painting.