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Iris Grace's paintings go global

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Little Iris Grace Halmshaw's paintings have been making the news after she appeared in the Mercury last month. The three-year-old, from Market Harborough, who is autistic and cannot speak, was on ITV news earlier this week and her artwork has gone global as scores of websites have featured her paintings. Her proud mum and dad Arabella Carter-Johnson, 32, and Peter-Jon Halmshaw, originally posted Iris Grace's paintings on Facebook after people commented on her extraordinary work. Posting on their Facebook page yesterday they said: "Just seen Iris on the ITV news, I had it on thinking she might be on as we had a call from them yesterday and of course it came on while I popped to the kitchen, I could hear Iris was excited about something, came in and she was jumping around infront of the t.v looking at herself paint. V.cool." Just a few of the sites featuring Grace's work include the Daily Mail which ran an article online and in the paper , ITV ran an online piece and Iris Grace appeared on TV, and online just a few of the articles included German publication BILD, and MSN, which ran with the headline "These paintings by a 3-year-old girl have the art world enchanted", FOX2Now in the US and Huffington Post to name just a few. The family are hoping to arrange an exhibition in London to give Iris Grace's paintings a wider audience. All profits from sales go towards art materials and paying her private therapists. See the family's website: www.irisgracepainting.com

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