I desired to share this in the blog which is so very odd this way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting in support of recently took it off in the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat on along side it from the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I needed a photo which i desired to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The look was of an mountain, once we are decreasing from the top. I knew I needed it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. And so i designed a canvas. I knew before hand that the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only one or two hours with it for the first day. The second day, I took the painting when camping on the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was some epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames which one out of particular we had just acquired located mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But the following is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies ah. Around the botton with 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’d carried out the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, awaiting new life, off to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, your way through the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a bit a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame we became of have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrived 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?! I’ve not a clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back from the painting and will also be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!