I painted this little island in the Victoria harbour, with its resident inukshuk and spectacular Olympic Mountain backdrop, following an early winter snowfall last year. I also used Photoshop to paint a video of it that I intended to enter in the ‘My Victoria’ one-Minute Video competition at the Victoria Film Festival. It turned out to be too long (three minutes, and their absolute limit is two) and complicated (I called it ‘The Theory of Everything’) for the competition, but I recently put it up on Youtube. Click here if you’d like to have a look at it.
Charlene is a graduate of the University of Alberta (BSc) and the University of Colorado (MBA), now retired from a career in the Canadian Public Service.
During the ten years her husband was with Emirates Airline, Charlene travelled extensively, served as Administrator of the Dubai Arts Centre, and wrote about painting, archaeology and future studies for the Khaleej Times and the Gulf News.
She has written 1150 Words by Charlene Brown since 2009.