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 happened to come across this while looking at Huffington Posts ‘reasons why cats help people and make them happier’. Watching this video and looking at the paintings, clearly shows just what cats can do to help people. Iris Grace has a beautiful talent and as parents, you must be SO proud of her! I thank you very much for sharing that video with us and taking us inside her world. I’ve worked with autistic children and can see what happens when there’s no therapy or the help needed to communicate and that’s not the case with Iris Grace ❤ What a beautiful story and I very much enjoyed looking at her paintings! Greetings from Ontario, Canada!
Loved this story, what a beautiful little girl. I believe in” God’s given” talents…hers is definitely artistic!
HI!! I just want to say that i HATE nicknacks and wall hangings and other mundane things people use to fill their homes, i never thought id see the day when i actually liked (loved!) any thing like that. these paintings wrench my attention to them, and invoke some sort of curiosity and deep emotion. I will be contacting you with some questions – hopefully an order!
gorgeous! I don’t mean just her paintings but Iris herself is a beautiful human being. She has brought awareness to everybody she reaches without even saying a word. I would love to own one of her masterpieces because it stands for something so much more than just a “painting.” These are her thoughts, her feelings, that she’s expressing with an amazing gift God has given her. Fight on, Iris! You’ve given others hope and light throughout the world! 🙂
What an amazing story! May God bless your beautiful little girl!