I planned to share this in the blog because it’s simply so very odd that way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting in support of just recently took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the medial side within the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I had an image which i wished to paint, because I was thinking about life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The image was of your mountain, even as we are coming down from the top. I knew I want to it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. Therefore i created a canvas. I knew ahead of time how the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a couple of hours into it on the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me towards the beach and was 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 happened to be discussing frames and also this one out of particular that individuals had just acquired found mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But this is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies ah. Around the botton with the frame would be 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 Classical impressionist artist I had done in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, expecting new life, on the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, your way from the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people became of have down in the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were concerning the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We have not a clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back of the painting and you will be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!