I wanted to share this within a blog because it is so that very odd like that things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting simply just recently removed it from the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat on the medial side from the studio. A month ago, I needed a graphic i planned to paint, because I was considering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The look was of the mountain, once we are coming down from the top. I knew I wanted it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. So I designed a canvas. I knew ahead of time that this painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just one or two hours into it for the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting when camping towards the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It turned out some epic struggle in memory!

We was discussing frames which one out of particular we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But the following is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. Around the botton from the frame would be 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 had carried out the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, expecting new life, away and off to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in everyday life, right onto your pathway with the shadows and mountain highs. That was 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 in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was in regards to 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 following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! We have no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back with the painting and will be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!