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 
Our God is awesome, i feel very encouraged to see a 3 year old do something as great as this, far beyond her age. Note this name, she’ll go places with all the love and support she can get, I’m convinced Iris, you were made specially. Iris’ Parents should be commended for their patience, love and support because it reflects in the paintings as well.
Beautiful. Calming. Similar to Monet’s masterpieces and perhaps a glimpse into how she perceives her world. She’s only 3.5 yrs old…simply amazing! My 11 yr old son who struggles w/ autism sketches from memory and has incredible skill w/ clay and creating other 3-D structures/sculptures.
I think this is a remarkable story and I read several other comments, its amazing what one child could express. I feel her paintings busy, calming, colorful and mezmerizing….keep it up Iris, you are a beautiful little girl with a talent from God himself. I foster children and have had a little girl with possible autism, so I think its wonderful how one child to another can express themselves! Gook luck in your future!!
This rare beauty in these paintings is clearly the expression of a beautiful soul. Thank You, Lord. Thank you, parents for sharing your precious daughter with the world.
I’m a professional artist among other things. Her work isn’t just sophisticated for a 3 1/2 year old. It’s more sophisticated than most 20 or 30 year old artists could manage. It also gives an interesting insight into autism. If she’s painting what she sees then, given that the human mind automatically see’s patterns in chaos, then she’s seeing patterns in all of life. Which indicates to me (also an ex psychologist) that this pattern recognition function may be far far stronger in the autistic mind. Which could help explain the difficulty with communication and the love of familiar things. Has she ever seen Monet’s work? I’d be interested in her reaction to it.