Saturday, October 11, 2014

Iris Halmshaw

This little five-year-old girl is autistic and unable to speak. Her parents did a lot of research on autism and finally decided to try art therapy.  It clicked. The little girl picked up painting techniques astonishingly quickly and could spend two hours at a time, painting in consistent concentration. Her mother says, "From the first painting, she filled the paper with color and it wasn't random -- it was considered and thought out."

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/09/world/the-extraordinary-art-of-autistic-five-year-old-monet/index.html?hpt=hp_c2