I wanted to share this in the blog because it’s simply so very odd this way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting simply just lately took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the inside within the studio. A month ago, I’d a photo that I planned to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The image was of your mountain, even as we are decreasing in the top. I knew I desired it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew ahead of time that this painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be a couple hours involved with it for the first day. The second day, I took the painting beside me on the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames which one out of particular that individuals had just acquired came to mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But here’s where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies ah. For the botton with the frame would have been 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 Plein air painting I needed done in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting new life, away and off to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in everyday life, the journey over the shadows and mountain highs. That was a bit an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people became of have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be about the decent down a mountain side, where in the title may be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though had not arrive at my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! We’ve no idea!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back of the painting and are sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!