Ann and I are delighted to reveal the latest additions to The Wylde Ones collection…
When we launched the series in the spring of 2025, neither of us anticipated quite how warmly it would be received — nor how many new faces it would introduce to Otherwurlde Studio.
Eighteen months on, The Wylde Ones has grown into a family of more than forty original works and continues to expand, thanks to your support.
We hope you enjoy these latest additions as much as Ann has enjoyed bringing them into the world.
But before we get to the paintings, there’s one other piece of news we’ve been waiting to share…
Otherwurlde Studio is now on YouTube.
More on that below.
With our warmest wishes,
Gary & Ann
Back in 2013, I registered our channel name on YouTube…
It has taken me just thirteen years to actually start using it.
There have been plenty of excuses along the way — usually lack of time, or the nagging suspicion that nobody would be particularly interested in watching us go about our day-to-day studio life.
But over the past few years, that view has changed.
YouTube has become far more than somewhere to watch the occasional video. It has grown into a vast search and discovery platform in its own right — somewhere people actively go to learn, explore and follow subjects that genuinely interest them.
That matters to us.
Ann and I have never felt especially comfortable with the increasingly fleeting nature of Facebook and Instagram, where so much depends upon what an algorithm decides to put in front of you. YouTube still feels rather different: subscribe to a channel and you can return to it, follow its progress and watch at your own pace.
That feels much closer to the kind of relationship we want to have with you.
So, after years of talking about it, Otherwurlde Studio is finally on YouTube.
At the time of writing, we’ve uploaded four videos, covering studio life, Ann’s painting process, the landscapes around us and some of the quieter moments that sit behind the work. The three latest Wylde paintings in this issue even make an appearance in Video #4.
Click the YouTube links above or below to visit the channel and have a look around.
And if you enjoy what we’re doing, please subscribe. Comments, likes and subscriptions all help YouTube understand who the films are for — and, in turn, help new people discover the studio.
We’re in this for the long-haul, so any help we receive at this early stage would mean a great deal to us.
Thank you.
Well, hello once more…
For those who’ve been with us from the beginning, welcome back. And if this is your first glimpse into The Wylde Ones, here’s a little context.
Each piece in the collection is hand-painted by Ann on linen-wrapped canvas board — a subtle but deliberate shift from the smoother panels used for Otherwurlde. The natural weave of the canvas, combined with Ann’s gestural brushwork, lends these paintings a softness and vitality. They don’t strive for polish; they carry energy. They hum with intent.
Colour plays its own quiet but important role. Drawing inspiration from heritage paint archives — let’s call them Barrow & Fall — Ann blends bespoke oil hues that echo those timeless tones: warm, elegant, and at home in lived-in spaces.
Compositionally, these creatures rarely take centre stage. Instead, they hover at the edges, as if just stepping into view — a nod to wildness that is unposed, unannounced, and unapologetic. The effect can feel quietly unsettling, and that’s entirely intentional. Art isn’t here to soothe; it’s here to prompt thought, invite reflection, and earn its place.
By leaving the frame open, we also leave room for story. For ambiguity. For the sense that something might happen just beyond the edge of what’s shown.
With that in mind… let’s take a look at what this latest wave brings.
From the moment we first unveiled The Wylde Ones in the spring of 2025, we always knew that there would come a day when we’d have to explore the realm of the farmyard…
Ann explored several possibilities, but none quite felt right for the collection, hence why we focused for so long on wildlife.
When the time came, Lambs were one of the first subjects we explored. They have such an innate gentleness about them that anything too busy or comic risked overwhelming the subject.
The solution came through something far smaller.
What if the lamb wasn’t doing anything dramatic at all? What if it had simply paused, curious and slightly uncertain, at the sight of a fresh spider’s web suspended nearby?
Suddenly, everything clicked into place.
The finished piece became Dewdrops… — a quiet, sensitive study of a young lamb encountering something delicate and unfamiliar. The web, still fresh with moisture, feels almost impossibly fragile beside the softness of the wool, and we love the sense that the lamb is simply taking a moment to work out what on earth it is looking at.
It’s a very small story, but that’s precisely why it works.
For the background, Ann chose Barrow Blue from the F&B palette — a soft, sympathetic tone that allows the lamb’s pale colouring and the fine detail of the web to sit gently together.
The image below, shows how we’re framing Original Artworks for this collection. We’re having work float-mounted over a matte background of midnight blue. There’s then a small gap before we get to a fillet of distressed & antique’d effect brass. That allows the blue backboard to show through along with the natural shadows cast by the artwork itself. It’s a beautiful solution. As for the actual moulding, we’re using a gently contoured, inward-sloping moulding in matte-black. We consider this the ideal solution to best support these expressive slabs of colour and allow them to ‘sing’.
Next, we have Incoming!
One of the runaway successes within The Wylde Ones has been ‘Catch of the Day…’ – a beautiful study featuring a Puffin looking up from its nest, to a higher ledge where its mate approaches, its beak laden with fish. Many of you have made a connection with this one, so we thought it only sensible to offer another study and make a matching pair of them…
‘Incoming!’ captures that moment when the Puffin makes landfall after a successful fishing expedition. We both love the dynamic flaring of its wings as it touches-down and its determined gaze.
For the background, Ann chose Hazy from the Farrow & Ball archive — a delicate, dusty blue that matches the hue used in the earlier painting.
In the detail below, you can see the bed of Sea Pink flowers, so closely associated with the cliffs & folds in which the Puffins nest.
Below, is a reminder of the first Puffin study within The Wylde Ones: ‘Catch of the Day…’. As with ‘Incoming!’, it uses the same refreshing impasto style and has a distinctive character.
Piece number three is Just Kidding…
Those of you who have followed The Wylde Ones from the beginning will know that Ann has always enjoyed slipping a little mischief into the collection. Just Kidding… may be one of the clearest examples yet.
This time, the culprit is a young goat kid wearing an expression that can only really be described as self-satisfied.
Something is already being chewed with great enthusiasm, and dangling from the corner of its mouth is a tell-tale strand of blue and yellow thread. At first glance, that might mean nothing.
Then you notice the washing line in the opposite corner.
Two striped socks hang there in matching colours — except one is now missing a very substantial piece from its toe.
The evidence, frankly, is not looking good.
We particularly like the contrast between the kid’s complete lack of concern and the quiet little crime scene unfolding around it. There is no panic, no apology and certainly no suggestion that lunch is about to be interrupted.
For the background, Ann chose a warm buff-brown tone from F&B’s catalogue (the gloriously obscure Tack Room Door) that sits comfortably behind the pale colouring of the kid while allowing those small flashes of blue and yellow to do just enough of the storytelling.
Well, here we are — the next wave of The Wylde Ones is out in the world!
That’s it for this latest release, and thank you for staying with us to the end.
We already have another trio of Wylde Ones almost ready to go — we’ve been busy! — so, all being well, there may yet be another newsletter before the end of October.
Whether you’re planning a visit to our stand in Cirencester’s Corn Hall or simply browsing from home, we hope you enjoy seeing what’s new. Every piece — from the smallest print to the largest canvas — is made with the same care and attention we’d hope to find as collectors ourselves.
It’s now eighteen months since we first introduced the collection, and the response has genuinely surprised us — in the best possible way. Your support has meant a great deal during a period of enormous change, not least in the way technology is beginning to reshape how art is made, discovered and valued.
Against that backdrop, it matters to us enormously that Ann’s hand-painted work — made slowly, deliberately and with real human intention — continues to find an audience.
Our YouTube adventure is only just beginning, and we expect it to become an important part of how we share life at Otherwurlde Studio from here on.
But one thing won’t change:
This newsletter is where you’ll continue to hear our news first.
Finally, thank you — sincerely — for all the support, encouragement and patience you’ve shown us over the years.
We couldn’t do this without you.
Let’s keep that light shining.
