Johnny Paints

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Johnny Paints…
and paints… and paints… and paints
Words by Reggie Pugh
Art by Johnny Carroll-Pell
ISBN 978-1-0686052-9-1 | 40pp | 2025
New Title Published 26 August 2025 in hardcover, A4 landscape
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In Johnny’s world quiet is best, but how can you share your ideas and feelings if you don’t use your voice?

The simple narrative follows Johnny Carroll-Pell – an artist who is diagnosed as severely autistic – on his creative journey, using sumptuous imagery that celebrates the texture, movement and colour of paint on canvas.

The purpose of this book is to celebrate the act of painting and its ability to express emotions and feelings that can sometimes be difficult to communicate in other ways.

Additional illustrations & design by Reggie Pugh.
Additional text by Gina Harries-Pugh.
Additional artwork by Pete Ramskill.

Praise for the artist:

"Many artists would envy the spontaneity and freedom of expression that Johnny shows as he paints - and the joyous and arresting results speak for themselves." Jane Asher, National Autistic Society President

"Johnny paints that feeling you get when you finally jump off the diving board and whoosh towards the water, when a brilliant idea breaks into your head, when you say yes ok let's do this and you jump on a toboggan with your kid. I'm not sure there's a word for that feeling, but thanks to Johnny I now know what it looks like." Frank Cottrell Boyce

"Johnny is a true artist: prolific, instinctive and with a profound and purposeful sense of space, shape and colour. His joyous work is intense and warm, describing his world and those in it with a love and simplicity that is both moving and truthful." Jessica Hynes