An autistic artist from Worcestershire said he was “speechless” after discovering Sir Richard Branson had bought one of his paintings.<\/p>\n
The Virgin Group Founder, who has openly discussed being dyslexic, bought a painting from Rhys Caldwell-Clarkson, from Malvern, after being inspired by his work.<\/p>\n
Diagnosed as autistic at eight years old, Caldwell-Clarkson told the BBC he began his new business Art on the Spectrum because his job in retail was overwhelming.<\/p>\n
Sir Richard purchased one of his pieces after the BBC first reported his story. The businessman praised his work and congratulated him for launching the platform.<\/p>\n
In a special video message to Caldwell-Clarkson he said: “I love your creativity and landscape paintings. I’m lucky enough to live by the sea and that’s what keeps me calm.<\/p>\n
“Your paintings are the most beautiful, calm things I’ve ever seen. So keep painting, keep dreaming and showing the world just what you can do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An autistic artist from Worcestershire said he was “speechless” after discovering Sir Richard Branson had bought one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}