I desired to share this inside a blog since it is just so very odd doing this things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting simply recently removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the inside inside the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I had created a photo that I desired to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The look was of a mountain, as we are coming down from your top. I knew I wanted it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. And so i created a canvas. I knew before hand how the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a few hours in it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me on the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames which one in particular we had just acquired came to mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But here’s in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies ah. For the botton of the frame would have been a brass label. It had, up to now 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 carried out in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, awaiting new life, off and away to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in everyday life, your way from the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that we became of have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be regarding the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though had not arrive at my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I’ve little idea!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back of the painting and will be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!