I wished to share this in the blog since it is simply so very odd that way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting in support of recently took it off in the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to along side it inside the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I needed an image i wanted to paint, since i was thinking about life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The look was of a mountain, 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 was very beneficial. So I created a canvas. I knew before hand how the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a couple of hours with it about the first day. The next day, I took the painting when camping towards the beach and managed 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 and this one out of particular that we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But this is where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. On the botton in 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 impressionism I needed carried out in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, expecting new life, off to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in everyday life, right onto your pathway with the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we happened to have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was concerning the decent down a mountain side, where in the title might be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though had not come to my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I have little idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back of the painting and you will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!