I wanted to share this in the blog which is just so very odd like that things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting simply just lately took it off in the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the side from the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I had a photo i wished to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The picture was of the mountain, once we are decreasing in the top. I knew I wanted it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. And so i designed a canvas. I knew in advance that the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a few hours with it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me towards the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames and this one in particular that individuals had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But the following is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. Around the botton from the frame would have been a brass label. It had, alternatives 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’d completed in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, expecting new life, away and off to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in life, your journey from the shadows and mountain highs. That was a little bit an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people happened to have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t arrive at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I’ve no idea!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back with the painting and you will be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!