The Artist Iris Grace

Be inspired by the extraordinary paintings by a young autistic artist from England.  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. 

Over the Mountains Over the Sea, painting by The Artist Iris Grace. Acrylics and watercolours

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.

Iris Grace by Arabella Carter-Johnson

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 please visit Iris’s Online Shop

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. 

Anima painted by Iris Grace.

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.  

476 thoughts on “The Artist Iris Grace

  1. mike ambs (@mikeambs) says:

    I teared up looking through her paintings – the fact that Iris has difficulty communicating through words, but can create these kinds of beautiful-beautiful images… is just amazing.

  2. Jackie says:

    Such beautiful work. It touches my soul, for want of a better term, in ways I honestly can’t articulate. Her work makes me feel calm and serene. Best always to Iris.

  3. Sophie Kolyvas says:

    she is an inspiration, looking at this amazing painting and the circumstances behind it makes my troubles in life seem so insignificant.
    I will be sharing this with my 11 year old daughter.

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