Be inspired by the extraordinary paintings from a young autistic artist from England.
The Artist
She is best known for her early work at aged four but has continued to paint while growing up in Leicestershire near Market Harborough. Her talent to express herself through painting astonished the world as at that time she was not speaking. Iris’s mother Arabella Carter-Johnson shares her art to inspire and raise awareness of her condition.
The story is published Globally and Iris sells paintings to private art collectors in the UK and all over the world including Angelina Jolie.
‘Highly intricate luminous pieces of art’ The Times
‘An Astonishing Talent’ Daily Express
‘Remarkable’ ITV News
‘Paintings that have stunned the art world’ Daily Mail
Iris met Thula, a Maine coon cat in 2014 and life at home started to change. They had an immediate affinity. At this point Iris started to open up and communicate with Thula in a way that she hadn’t done before and this started her amazing journey with many animals .
The Book
Arabella documented their journey through diary entries and photographs and now tells Iris’s story in her first book. It is illustrated in full colour with photographs and of course Iris’s beautiful paintings. ‘Iris Grace’ has been published in Hardcover by Penguin and has been translated into 11 languages.
Original Works of Art
A selection of Iris’s Original paintings are for sale. Email Arabella at irisgracepainting@yahoo.com to receive the price list and information about delivery.
Giclee Prints
To order a giclee print email Arabella at irisgracepainting@yahoo.com
Using extremely ‘high end’ scan-back camera technology and daylight balanced lighting, we are able to create an incredibly accurate and detailed digital image. Our colour management ensures consistency and guarantees the highest standards and quality of image.
We pay fastidious attention to colour balancing to ensure extremely accurate reproduction. With the very latest in art printing technology with fully calibrated photo-scanning, processing and printing equipment.
The word Giclée (“g-clay”), is derived from the French verb gicler meaning “to squirt or spray”. Giclée, is used to describe a fine art digital printing process combining pigment based inks with high quality archival quality paper (Hahnemühle German Etching, 310 gsm) to achieve Giclée prints of superior archival quality, light fastness and stability.
Profits from the sales of her art go towards her therapies, art materials, education and Iris’s future.
Iris Grace Painting 
whatever it is you all say this girl is very lucky to have such a talent and a way to express herself…her paintings are just breathtaking…amidst the profusion of colors is the serenity and there is still form…the colors are just awesome. God is really good…
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I think Iris Grace is a gift from God….just as my twin boys are. They have autism also and I am blessed to have them. Her painting are beautiful and so is she……
Perhaps every one (not just an autistic child) would paint as fearless as this if not told what to paint, how to paint, and was not worry about what a tree, flower, landscape, face etc is supposed to look like, OR who is judging the canvas. She is simply painting for the feel of the paint, the excitement of the colors and the emotion of activity. Her lack of communication is her gift back to us. She allows us to have our experience as she had hers. Cheers to her for reminding us that art is not found in copying but in expressing. Take a lesson from this child — create with out fear of judgement and see what happens.
I found this through a yahoo new link. I click on her painting and the first thing that happened was an urgent need to cry they were so beautiful. Your daughter has amazing talent. What she cannot express in words comes through clearly in her art. You are blessed to have such a child.
In each of us there is a gift, waiting to be opened. This little girl has shared her gift through the pictures she leaves on each canvas. She can’t speak words, yet so many words are conveyed through how she see’s the world around her. Her pictures appear to reflect the beauty of that world. What a gift!