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 
This child is amazing! She’s so cute and beautiful! She may have an incredible whole world inside her young head, and it just gets perfectly painted in her great creations! I’m just 14, originary from Chile, and I admit I admire this little girl. Teach her to stay strong until the end, when she grows up, lands may become difficult because teens are dumb, but she’s so incredible and nobody should ever think she’s under the rest because of her different characteristics, honestly, she’s over us. Kisses and lots of love for all of you.
Thankyou Antonia, its very kind of you to write to us and your English is great by the way, we lived in Venezuela for a year (before Iris was born) and my Spanish never got as good as your English 🙂 We really appreciate your kind words x
I love this story on Iris Grace. I am the owner of a publishing service company out of Texarkana Tx. I would like to talk to someone about possibly publishing some Information about Iris Grace. What an inspiration this could be for others and her love of painting no doubt has opened up a whole new world to her. Please contact me at pam@logozon.com or my phone number is 903-306-2561 office
Thank you so much and what a blessing this story is.
Pam Adams
Logozon Publishing
Dear Pam,
Thankyou for your message, you can email me at irisgracepainting@yahoo.com, I will give you a quick email now just so you have my details and yes, we are always interested to talk about more ways to get Iris’s story out there and raise more awareness. Many Thanks,
Arabella (Iris’s Mother)
ohhh…is realy Beautiful work, Iris es toda una artista, para mi ella no es autista, ella es un maravilloso ser capaz de percibir la realidad con otra mirada, bellisima ella es y extraordinario trabajo
I have been an artist since I was in 4th grade am now 41 and just Wow Iris you are so amazing what a talent you have. My niece a a form of autisum I have tried to comuicate in many ways with her on many levels but unfortunately non work her parents have her into sponge Bob. But thankfully I can tell she does know when I am around she is 9. Iris will forever be in my prayers in the future I will look so I can buy a picture paitnted by you, they are all so very beautiful god bless you !!!
This story almost made my heart burst. Such beautiful gifts children like Iris are. Also are the people like you who are chosen to guide her through this life.
I was just curious as to whether or not there is a way to purchase her paintings. If not, perfectly understandable, I would just love to cherish her amazing talent. 🌷