Shadow
10-12-2014, 11:03 AM
Very cute AND talented little girl.
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(CNN) -- At first glance, they could almost pass for masterpieces by Monet or Renoir. But these impressionist-style paintings -- which are changing hands for thousands of dollars -- were painted by a five-year-old girl who is unable to speak. Meet Iris Halmshaw, an autistic child from Leicestershire, UK, who has been producing these striking artworks since she was three. She has autism, a condition that has made her unable to communicate except through the medium of art. "From the first painting, she filled the paper with color and it wasn't random -- it was considered and thought out," says her mother, Arabella Carter-Johnson.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/141009111337-iris-grace-painting-field-2-left-tease.jpg
Five-year-old painter Iris Grace Halmshaw
"She was so excited and happy I knew that we had found a key into her world and a way of interacting with her."
Paintings at link http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/09/world/the-extraordinary-art-of-autistic-five-year-old-monet/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
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(CNN) -- At first glance, they could almost pass for masterpieces by Monet or Renoir. But these impressionist-style paintings -- which are changing hands for thousands of dollars -- were painted by a five-year-old girl who is unable to speak. Meet Iris Halmshaw, an autistic child from Leicestershire, UK, who has been producing these striking artworks since she was three. She has autism, a condition that has made her unable to communicate except through the medium of art. "From the first painting, she filled the paper with color and it wasn't random -- it was considered and thought out," says her mother, Arabella Carter-Johnson.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/141009111337-iris-grace-painting-field-2-left-tease.jpg
Five-year-old painter Iris Grace Halmshaw
"She was so excited and happy I knew that we had found a key into her world and a way of interacting with her."
Paintings at link http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/09/world/the-extraordinary-art-of-autistic-five-year-old-monet/index.html?hpt=hp_c3