I desired to share this in the blog because it’s so very odd like that things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting simply recently took it off in the stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the inside inside the studio. A couple weeks ago, I had a graphic that I wished to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The image was of your mountain, once we are coming down from the top. I knew I needed it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. And so i made a canvas. I knew in advance that this painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple hours into it around the first day. The second day, I took the painting when camping towards the beach and been 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 which one out of particular that individuals had just acquired located mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But the following is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. On the botton of 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 impressionist artist I had carried out the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting new life, on the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in your life, right onto your pathway with the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been somewhat element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was about the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title might be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t visit my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We’ve little idea!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back of the painting and you will be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!