I wanted to share this in the blog which is so that very odd doing this things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting in support of just recently removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the side in the studio. A couple weeks ago, I had a graphic i planned to paint, because I was considering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The picture was of an mountain, once we are coming down in the top. I knew I desired it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. And so i designed a canvas. I knew ahead of time the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a couple hours in it for the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting when camping to the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was some epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames and also this one in particular that we had just acquired came to mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But the following is where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. On the botton in the frame was obviously a brass label. It had, up to now 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 Jessica Henry I needed completed in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, expecting new life, off and away to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in everyday life, your journey from the shadows and mountain highs. That was a bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was concerning the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until after 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?! We have no clue!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back from the painting and you will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!