I planned to share this within a blog because it is just so very odd doing this things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and only just took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the inside inside the studio. A month ago, I’d a photo that I desired to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The image was of your mountain, even as are coming down from the top. I knew I desired it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. And so i designed a canvas. I knew in advance how the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a few hours with it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting beside me on the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was some epic struggle in memory!

We was discussing frames which one out of particular that we had just acquired came to mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But this is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. On the botton with the frame was a brass label. It had, as yet 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 Plein air painting I had created completed in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, awaiting new life, off and away to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in daily life, your way from the shadows and mountain highs. That has been somewhat included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that we became of have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were about the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrived at my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I’ve not a clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back of the painting and will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!