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 
I agree that they seem calm and relaxing. I feel that if she felt chaotic, she would use stronger, darker colors and not the soft pastels. The paintings are beautiful and it’s beautiful that she is able to express herself.
My brother and I are both autistic so I feel very connected to children out there with autism and the unique challenges they face. (We are both adults now, I am a LPN and my brother is a mechanic and an EMT, neither of us has ever tried meds.) We see the world so differently, but personally I wouldn’t change a thing! There is no reason we can not function in society just like “normal” people. As an autistic I feel like my default is sort of like a state of heightened awareness, I think most autistic children are in that place until they learn to start controlling it. It is difficult to pick what things are important and it is difficult to come out because everything is so intense and fascinating. (It is also exhausting) We do not just see the parts, we see how those parts interact and how those interact with others and so on. (It’s why I love medicine.) In a small way we can experience the universe in a drop of rain. When I am in that place in my head speaking forces me to engage the world more directly causing me to loose focus on my thoughts. I may have been working on these thoughts for some time, (literally hours) having those thoughts shattered can be REALLY annoying, it’s like your computer shutting down just as you were finishing something important. Even as an adult I still prefer it when people approach me calmly and quietly. Allowing me to adjust to you more slowly is like giving me time to save my work. Unless it’s an emergency and then by all means freak out, though the ability for me to understand emergencies came later. 🙂
I often communicate with gestures and facial expressions using words much less than normal people, though most people don’t really notice because I use some words also. That’s because most peoples brains process both word and gestures together as words. When needed though, I have no problem communicating solely through words. I also paint, though Iris is far more talented than me. 🙂 Give her time, I can tell by her smile that she has so much to share with the world, you are both doing great!
I am so inspired by Iris. I have a 4-year-old non-verbal autistic son who also loves painting. While his pieces of art are more typical 4 year old style, I am encouraged to find a way for him to better express himself. Way to go!
These paintings are beautiful, and so is the artist.
I thought it was done by a pro! But for her age, she’s already a pro!