I planned to share this in the blog because it is so very odd that way things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and only recently took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the side from the studio. A couple weeks ago, I had created a photo that I wished to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The style was of the mountain, even as are coming down from your top. I knew I want to it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. Therefore i designed a canvas. I knew beforehand how the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only one or two hours into it on the first day. The other day, I took the painting beside me towards the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It was some epic struggle in memory!

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

But here is the place that the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. About 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 Jessica Henry I had carried out the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, awaiting new life, on the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in daily life, the journey over the shadows and mountain highs. That was a bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people happened to have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be concerning the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title might be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though had not arrive at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We have not a clue!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back with the painting and will be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!