[1] After travelling in Europe she began work as a teacher at the Cathedral Grammar School in her home city in 1925.
She was there for four years until 1929[2] when she married a fellow teacher named George Eric Maxwell Keys.
[3] In 1947 the family were in Perth where her husband was the new head at Scotch College and she became the boys' art teacher.
She encouraged her students to bring in clay they had found locally and this was combined with glazes made from ashes to create their pottery.
[4] Keys work is in galleries in Ballarat, Brisbane, Christchurch, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.