Julia O'Malley-Keyes

Julia O’Malley-Keyes grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, spending the summers with her family on Cape Cod. She began painting as a child and sold her first painting at the age of 16.[1] She moved to Cape Cod full-time in 1969. She received early life training in painting under contemporary artist Henry Hensche[2] and Andrew Wyeth.[3]

O'Malley-Keyes founded her first studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts at the age of 22, and operated it for ten years.[2] After travelling for a few years, she founded the art gallery Day Hill Fine Art[1] in 1996.[2] She operated the gallery until 2012,[2][4] then spent five years travelling and living in Panama, where she focused on figural work, before moving back to Falmouth.[1] Her current art gallery is O’Malley-Keyes Fine Art, which she opened in 2012 in Falmouth.[1][2] She has also shown her works in group exhibitions.[5]

The Cape Cod Enterprise said of O’Malley-Keyes that she is “devoted to highly detailed, action packed oil paintings,” largely of maritime scenes and themes.[5] In 2007 O'Malley-Keyes provided the painting for the Figawi Race, a competitive sailing regatta that stretches from Hyannis to Nantucket.[6] Cape Cod Art described her as a “highly regarded maritime artist whose paintings and prints are in collections around the world”.[1] She is an American Society of Marine Artists Signature Artist.[7]

O’Malley-Keyes has led fine art auctions with the proceeds going to charity.[8]