Stephen Wiltshire
There's actually little recent news about Stephen Wiltshire, a talented British artist with autism who draws beautiful architectural landscapes with total accuracy, but someone sent me this 5-minute documentary about him. It shows what a brilliant artist he is.
He was featured on CNN for World Autism Day April 1. Known as "The Human Camera" because of his superbly accurate drawings of numerous cities of the world, Wiltshire was diagnosed with autism at age three and began drawing at age 5. He did not begin speaking until age 9.
Wiltshire was later named "the best child artist is Britain." He was featured in the writer and psychologist Oliver Sacks's book, An Anthropologist On Mars. According to his Web site, "In 2001 he appeared in the BBC documentary, 'Fragments of Genius,' for which he was filmed flying over London aboard a helicopter and subsequently completing a detailed and perfectly scaled aerial illustration of a four-square-mile area within three hours; his drawing included 12 historic landmarks and 200 other structures."
Wiltshire has published four books of his artwork, and his third book - Floating Cities (1991) - was No. 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. His next project will be sketching Jerusalem May 19-23.
