In December 2011, three-year-old Iris Grace Halmshaw was diagnosed with autism. But she has been blessed with an extraordinary talent to express herself through painting.
She cannot speak and other children unnerve and distress her, but art has soothed her. As part of her therapy, Iris's parents encouraged her to take up painting, which she quickly grew to love.
"Her autism has created a style of painting which I have never seen in a child of her age," mother Arabella Carter-Johnson wrote on the site. "She has an understanding of colors and how they interact with each other. She beams with excitement and joy when I get out the paints, it lifts her mood every time."
So far, the family has sold many prints of her paintings. Money raised will be put toward Iris' therapy. For more information go to irisgracepainting.com.
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