I wished to share this in a blog because it is just so very odd this way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting and only recently removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat on the side from the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I had a graphic that we desired to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The style was of the mountain, once we are decreasing from the top. I knew I desired it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew in advance how the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a couple of hours involved with it on the first day. The second day, I took the painting beside me to the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was some epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames this also one inch particular we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But here’s the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. On the botton in the frame would have been a brass label. It had, until recently framed a painting by Frederic Remington, called “The Way Down” and featured a string of pack mules descending a mountain side.

Sound strange!?
1. The Classical impressionism I had created carried out in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, looking forward to new life, on the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in life, your journey with the shadows and mountain highs. That has been a little bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that individuals became of have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be in regards to the decent down a mountain side, where in the title may be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though had not visit my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! We have no idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back of the painting and will also be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!