Painter of pictures in which the amalgamation of several scenes within a single canvas produced an enigmatic quality, emphasised by the titling. Keown was born in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, graduating with first-class honours in fine art from University of Ulster, Belfast. Awards included Bass Ireland Award at Belfast Young Contemporaries, the President’s Prize at RUA and Student’s Award, Arts Society of Ulster, all 1997; Best Abstract Work/Morrigan Press Award and Cavehill Gallery Invitation Award, both RUA, 1998; and The Ireland Fund of Great Britain Artist of the Year Award, 2001. Among other mixed shows were a Group Exhibition of Irish Women Artists, Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, America, 2000. Later solo exhibitions included Solomon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, and Tavira Galeria de Arte, Bilbao, Spain (where Keown lived), both 2001, and Pyms Gallery, 2002.