I desired to share this in a blog since it is so that very odd that way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting in support of recently removed it from the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the side within the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I had created an image that we wished to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The picture was of the mountain, even as we are coming down from the top. I knew I wanted it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. So I created a canvas. I knew in advance that the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be one or two hours with it about the first day. The next day, I took the painting with me to the beach and managed 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 and this one in particular that people had just acquired located mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But the following is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. For the botton in the frame was obviously 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 Classical impressionism I needed completed in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, expecting new life, off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in life, your way through the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people became of have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title may be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though had not visit my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We’ve little idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back in the painting and you will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!