Artworks
The following art pieces are painted by people with ASD. These artworks represent their thoughts, values, and what they want to speak out. The original links are connected to each picture.
Tamsin Parker
Tae-goo Cowering
Tamsin Parker is a 23-year-old woman who is on the autism spectrum and has a passion for her art. She is an artist and animator. As a kid, she had a difficult time socializing with others. She would say some things and hurt others’ feelings without meaning to. At school, girls in her classroom would bully her and teachers did not help much either. Even in college she had a hard time fitting in and connecting with others. Not like most autistic women, Tamsin did not imitate and pretend to be someone she was not. She just expressed how and what she felt directly and most of this was shown through her art. Although many people do not understand her art, she hopes one day she can change that.
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(Picture: https://tamsinparker.wixsite.com/mysite-2)
(Text: https://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/my-life-woman-autism-spectrum)
Jon Adams
Wilfred Owen Drive
Jon Adams works in digital media, sound, drawing, performance, and poetry. He was diagnosed later in life and being autistic has positively impacted his arts. He became a geological and archeological book illustrator using his skills in 3D and his love of detail.
(https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/21/these-10-artists-prove-autism-is-no-barrier-to-creativity-7446895/)
Anna Berry
Breathing Room
Although she works in many mediums, she is best known for her dramatically fragile paper sculptures. Her work explores issues surrounding reality and experience and by extension, the nature of reality.
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(https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/21/these-10-artists-prove-autism-is-no-barrier-to-creativity-7446895/)
Angus Corbett
Picture: Angus Corbett
Angus Corbett is a fused glass artist from Barr in Ayrshire. He designs and produces glassware based on his own artwork, despite having a limited vision. He has always been attracted to shapes and patterns of different forms and sizes and creating unique fused art glassware.
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(https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/21/these-10-artists-prove-autism-is-no-barrier-to-creativity-7446895/)
Tierney Bishop
Picture: Tierney Bishop
Tierney Bishop is a 19-year-old mixed media, acrylics, and glass artist from Reading. She enjoys using big strokes and thick textures when painting landscapes. Being autistic helped her find her own voice and through her art, she is able to express it using bright, dramatic, and exciting colors.
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(https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/21/these-10-artists-prove-autism-is-no-barrier-to-creativity-7446895/)
Jeremy Sicile-Kira
The Vibrant Colors of the Opera
Jeremy Sicile-Kira has autism and synesthesia at the same time. He sees and feels emotion as colors, and voices and music elicit the colors as well. This painting is inspired by the opera singer Julia Migenes, starring Carmen in the film version of Bizet’s opera.
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(https://the-art-of-autism.com/mozartoma-jeremy-sicile-kira-art-descriptions/)
Kevin Hosseini
Tango
Kevin Hosseini started painting when he was nine years old. He is often inspired by music, and he has developed his own style of painterly brush strokes in contrast to large areas of solid color. He enjoys using acrylic and oil paints, which can express abundant texture and depth.
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Sydney Edmond
Ballet Dreams
Sydney Edmond had difficulty communicating with other people until she was 10-year-old and learned how to point to the letters. She interacts with others using poetry and art. This is one of her poetries:
“My paintings
Like my poetry
Pour
Out
Like a prison escape.
What you see
Exclamations of great joy!
I paint
And my soul colors the canvas.
A wave of happiness washes over me
And I hope
Those who view my work”
