I wished to share this in a blog which is just so very odd this way things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting and just just recently took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to along side it from the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I’d a photo that we wished to paint, since i was thinking about life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The picture was of an mountain, even as we are coming down in the top. I knew I desired it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew before hand the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a few hours into it around the first day. The other 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 turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames and this one out of particular that we had just acquired located mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But the following is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies ah. About the botton from the frame would have been a brass label. It had, until recently 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’d done in the original 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, waiting for new life, off and away to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in daily life, your journey from the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame we became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be about the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t come to 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 created for this painting. Why?! We have not a clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back from the painting and will also be sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!