Keene married Harold Edgar Perinchief and retained her maiden name.

[1] She assisted her her mother with a 1914–1915 commission by Canadian Pacific Railway to photograph the Rocky Mountains for marketing materials.

[3] Violet Keene exhibited her work in both Europe and North America.

In Toronto, she established her own studio where she photographed Canadian artists and statesmen such as Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw,[1] and Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough.

The archives of her work (and her mother's) were acquired by The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University.