I planned to share this inside a blog which is just so very odd doing this things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting in support of just recently took it off through the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat on the inside in the studio. A couple weeks ago, I needed a picture i wanted to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The image was of the mountain, even 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 successful. So I created a canvas. I knew before hand the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple hours with it about the first day. The other day, I took the painting when camping towards the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It had been a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

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

But here’s the place that the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. About the botton with the frame was obviously 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 Classical impressionism I needed done in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, looking forward to new life, away and off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is really a painting about our battles in your life, the journey through the shadows and mountain highs. That has been a little bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame we became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been concerning the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I’ve little idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back from the painting and will also be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!