I planned to share this within a blog which is so very odd this way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting in support of just recently removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, so the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to along side it within the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I needed a photo i desired to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The style was of the mountain, even as we are coming down through the top. I knew I wanted it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. I really created a canvas. I knew ahead of time that this painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

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

We happened to be discussing frames this also one in particular that individuals had just acquired located mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But this is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies ah. For the botton in the frame would be 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 carried out in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, looking forward to new life, off and away to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in daily life, right onto your pathway with the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been somewhat included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that individuals happened to have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I have not a clue!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back with the painting and will also be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!