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.
“She was so excited and happy I knew that we had found a key into her world and a way of interacting with her.”
SOURCE: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/09/world/the-extraordinary-art-of-autistic-five-year-old-monet/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
