Charlene grew up at Warmun/Turkey Creek, Western Australia, and was exposed to ochre painting at an early age, being the daughter of well respected artists, Churchill Cann and Sade Carrington, both coming from the community on nearby Texas Downs cattle station. Texas has produced some wonderful painters, and having grown up in the environment of this art nursery, the young mother of five, now relishes the opportunity to paint her stories using the traditional techniques, no doubt benefiting from the mentoring from some of the finest of the Texas Downs/Turkey Creek ochre painting movement, Queenie McKenzie, Jack Britten, her grandfathers Beerbee Mungnari and Hector Jandany, Rover Thomas, and George Mung Mung.