Keith West studied fine art, drawing and painting at Coventry College of ‎Art. He exhibited at various London galleries and churches, such as St ‎Martin-in-the-Fields and Westminster Abbey, among others. He was a ‎lecturer and, later, head of arts at the Camden Institute. He was ‎commissioned in 2008 by the Tate Gallery Archive to write a memoir ‎about close friend and international art critic Barbara Reise and of his ‎experience as an art student during the influence of a radical ‎conceptualist philosophy at Coventry and its impact on British art and ‎art education. The document was published in a narrative version,l, Light ‎Under a Bushel in 2020.‎