I planned to share this in the blog since it is so very odd doing this things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and just just lately removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the side within the studio. A month ago, I needed an image which i planned to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The style was of a mountain, even as we are decreasing from your top. I knew I desired it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. Therefore i designed a canvas. I knew in advance the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply one or two hours into it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting beside me to the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We was discussing frames this also one inch particular we had just acquired located mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But the following is the location where the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies auction house. About the botton of the frame would have been 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 Classical impressionist artist I had created done in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, looking forward to new life, away and off to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, your journey over the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been somewhat included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people became of have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title may be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t arrive at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! We’ve little idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back in the painting and will also be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!