I desired to share this inside a blog because it’s so that very odd that way things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting and just just took it off from the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the medial side within the studio. A couple weeks ago, I had an image that I desired to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The style was of the mountain, as we are decreasing through the top. I knew I needed it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. I really created a canvas. I knew in advance how the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a couple of hours into it about the first day. The next 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 was some epic struggle in memory!

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

But this is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies ah. About the botton from the frame was obviously 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 carried out the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, waiting for new life, on 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 was somewhat included in the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were about the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t arrive at my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We’ve little idea!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back with the painting and will also be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!