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After studying art at Bremen High School, North Central College, and Northern Illinois University (Bachelors and Masters Degrees) I taught art for four years in Mount Prospect School District 57 before entering the field of advertising at Leo Burnett for four more years.

In 1976, I entered financial services and have headed my own company to date, doing financial planning for individuals and employee benefits for businesses.

I stopped painting in 1973 and resumed in 2000 doing mostly portraits. Late in 2004 I began painting abstracts and started showing them the following summer.

Member of the Chicago Artist Coalition and Algonquin Public Arts Council.

People ask why he uses the name “Keyes.” Shortly after graduating college I sketched some nudes, my “naked lady” pictures. My mother, half-jokingly, told me not to put my real name on them. So I used “Keyes” which was a name I had made up as a child. I’ve used that name ever since.