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 
Hermosas pinturas… me ha emocionado su caso, su arte.
I thought I was looking at Monet paintings! Your girl has a wonderful gift!!! Amazing!
who is the author of the painting titles? They are beautiful, but it sounds rather like a business than a good cause… congratulation on the girl
Hi Juan,
It’s Iris’s Mother here, for the moment we are naming the paintings as Iris doesn’t speak, we try and make them relevant to what they look like or how she felt while painting them. All of the profits are going towards Iris’s expensive private therapy, £7000.00 a year, none of her therapies that work for her are provided on the NHS and we are also saving some for her future so I assure you it is a good cause. Have a read through the site and her facebook page and you will understand what we are doing, raising funds to help our daughter and raising much needed awareness for Autism.
What you’re doing it’s great and I wish you can find the best way for Iris to get her ready for life as she grows up. Keep doing what you’re best at, that means being a caring mother and as a mother keep looking for the best for your daughter. You are now at ease some how that your daughter has been blessed by God with such natural, unselfish, explosive way and share through colors love. The way you’ve been surprised as a mother with how gifted Iris is, you may be even more surprised by how she will put up all the efforts to add more meanings to her art. It’s true, innocence it’s in every spot of color she drops on her paintings and as the time goes by she may lose this innocence, but she will grow in understanding and from within I hope she will grow new ways of expression and thus new ways creation will blossom.
Es, como ya muchos les han dicho, un pequeño angelito en este mundo. Ella solo sabe de belleza; sus pinturas nos lo dicen, A pesar de estar contaminados por el entorno actual y las múltiples discapacidades que portamos, es un milagro y una verdadera sorpresa el que aún a pesar de ello nosotros, los que “somos todos iguales”, podamos recibir tan tierno mensaje. Muchas gracias, chiquitita, Dios te ha puesto entre nosotros para traernos algo de Su luz.
wOW es impresionante !!! me encantan tiene mucha profundidad Dios les bendiga !! Iris eres una niña impresionante