His mother, Chantelle, is also an artist, and said she discovered his talent as she tried to keep him busy while working on her own pieces.

She said: “While learning to crawl, I spread out a piece of unstretched canvas on the floor and dropped some paint on it as a way to keep him busy while I worked on a commission painting.

“He ended up spreading the paint all over the canvas, and in the process he created his first masterpiece titled ‘The crawl’.”

Describing his creative process and approach to painting, his mother said his work was “an expression of his curiosity and joy in discovering new things”.

She said that once his painting area has been set up with canvases and paints, he walks into his studio and chooses the canvas size and colours he prefers.

“Then he calls me to open the paint bottles for him, and then he starts applying the paint on the canvas carefully yet spontaneously.

“A painting session can last anywhere from a few minutes to about half an hour, depending on his interest at the moment.

“Sometimes he leaves a painting and comes back to it after a couple of days to finish it.

“Once he’s done, he says ‘mama finish’.”