A ten-year-old ‘mini Monet’ in England paints stunning floral landscape paintings that can sell for up to £10,000.
Daisy Watt only started painting four years ago when two of her grandparents were diagnosed with cancer and she painted a picture to cheer them up.
Her mom, Karen, spotted the youngster’s talent, and asked if she’d like to paint a canvas to be displayed at a local gallery and auctioned for cancer charities.
Bidders from all over the world fought to buy the work featuring forget-me-nots for those who had died and bright flowers for those who survived. The large painting varied in color tone, going from dark to light, to represent the battle with cancer.
It sold for £9,500 and was so popular 100 special edition prints were commissioned and snapped up by buyers from the likes of Canada and Hong Kong.
Beginning with that moment in 2017, she has earned £50,000 through her artwork—and donated it all to charity.
Daisy’s paintings always feature flowers and she loves nothing more than heading out of her studio and into the garden with her paints, which in the beginning were tester pots from the local DIY shop.
“I’m just so proud of her,” said Karen, the mother-of-three from Misson, South Yorkshire. “Although she’s always been really creative, ever since she could hold a paintbrush, it wasn’t until she created that painting for her grandparents that we realized she had something special.”
“I’ve always let her paint and be messy ever since she was small.
Karen is a primary school teacher with a degree in art but says, “She is better than me.”
“One time we were sitting down painting tulips and I turned to her and said ‘right how are we going to figure out the shape here?’ I was trying to work it out and in that time she was dipping her paintbrush in different paints.
“Then with three different colors on the brush she started to paint. It was just the perfect tulip!”
Daisy now spends most days painting. She’s auctioned dozens of works—around 25—for charity, and has sold one-off originals, and prints which go for £100 a piece.
Cancer Research feature one of her works on their ‘thank you’ cards to families whose loves ones make legacy donations.
Karen, 50, and Daisy’s project-manager dad Charlie, said their humble daughter gets embarrassed by praise, and doesn’t realize her own talent.
“The thing is she is really shy and humble about her work. She cringes at the attention and doesn’t see what all the fuss is about.”
