I planned to share this in the blog because it’s so that very odd doing this things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and just just lately removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the side within the studio. A month ago, I had created a picture i planned to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The style was of the mountain, as we are coming down through the top. I knew I wanted it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. Therefore i created a canvas. I knew ahead of time that the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a couple hours in it about the first day. The next 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 was some epic struggle in memory!

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

But this is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. About the botton of 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 needed completed in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, waiting for new life, off to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, the journey with the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been slightly element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was concerning the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could possibly be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though had not come to my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I have not a clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back from the painting and will also be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!