Painter in oil who studied at Dundee College of Art, 1930–7, under James McIntosh Patrick, then with James Cowie at Patrick Allan-Fraser School of Art, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, 1937–8. Keay exhibited RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, SSA, RBSA and elsewhere. Lived in Dundee, Angus.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)