Charlene XMas can pull a parrot in 3 minutes. The same goes for a bluebird. With her list set up with paintbrushes and pots of colour, and a spread out board in front of her, she does a couple of flourishes that spin in to leaves and then a couple flicks of her brush that bring up branches. And the extraordinary thing is that she is self-taught.
"I admire art. I’ve always had an fascination in things artistic," she said. "I was never taught how to paint; it only flowed out of me."
Charlene has a pleasing picture that she herself embellished in her reception room - and she is adding to it bit by bit.
Yes, Charlene, at 23, is the owners of a spike salon.
The young woman from St James, who is right away living in St Philip with silent Sherill, father Davidson and younger sisters Kimberly and Dominique, is a protected onyxologist and esthetician.
After leaving the Alexandra School, she went to Atlanta to ! investigate skin and spike care, then came back home after 6 months to obtain her acceptance from the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic (SJPP).
"My 6 months in Atlanta were really rewarding. we worked in superstar Tiny’s (rapper TI’s wife) spike reception room on work attachment. But we had to advance back home since school."
Charlene has been an investor since completing her course, surroundings up a tiny space in her uncle’s coiffeur emporium and honing her qualification by hearing and error. She done the pierce then to make a bigger step deliver and obtain herself licensed.
She has eliminated her admire of fine art and art in to her business.
"I do a lot of jelly nails and acrylic. And we demonstrate my admire of art by my spike designs. When you see a established flowering plant pattern you know it’s CharNails. That’s my signature."
Charlene has large plans, and all of them h! ave to do with her gift of drawing, that has won her Best Tale! nt in two pageants.
"I entered Miss SJPP and won. we did a live fine art for my gift and won that pretension too. we moreover entered Miss Holetown 2012 and did a live painting. And won Best Talent for that too."
She went to Miss Carival final month in St Vincent but didn’t place as the props is to fine art weren’t ready. She was unhappy but calls it a "learning experience".
She says the pageants are stepping stones in conditions of selling her spike business and her admire of fine art and she is thankful is to bearing and the connectors she has made.
"I built my business square by square - all self-funded. But we am seeking to expand. So when we go to sell myself we can say we was Miss So And So and hope that it helps open doors."
Charlene moreover wants to learn others her craft.
For right away she is in Barbarees Hill, St Michael, and has done the little space her own, getting imagi! native with her spike clients and creation a couple of others cheerful with her paintings.
"I have been consecrated to do a couple of paintings and a few murals," she said, adding that a customer is perplexing to convince her to come in the National Independence Festival Of Creative Arts .
Her clients, she says, are easy to greatfully when it comes to her paintings.
"They will give me the simple thought and the colours they like. Some similar to sunsets, landscapes, florals, a few scenic."
Charlene is so active right away with her emporium that she says she frequency finds time to paint for herself at home. She says her room is filled with tiny paint jars that she sources from abroad but she goes to local store Harris Paints is to paint for her murals.
"I would admire to paint my room with a few floral borders, but silent is not having it," she said, laughing.
Charlene’s prime colours are pi! nkish and green, and they are ever present on her drawings.
At the finish of the interview, she shows off her important signature hand-painted flowers, the sovereign moth and the birds - bluebirds and parrots. She loves inlet and all her paintings uncover it - animals, greenness, a clarity of life and hope.
Charlene hopes that her inventive gift will take her to the places she wants to go and that a few day, maybe, Barbadians will see a picture with her signature on it in a place similar to Saudi Arabia or even Hollywood.
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