I wished to share this within a blog because it is just so very odd like that things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting in support of just lately removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the medial side within the studio. A couple weeks ago, I had a graphic which i planned to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The look was of an 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 worked well. And so i developed a canvas. I knew in advance how the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a few hours into it on the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me on the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It was some epic struggle in memory!

We were discussing frames and this one inch particular we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But the following is the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated in Christies ah. About the botton in the frame would have been a brass label. It had, up to now 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 needed carried out in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, expecting new life, away and off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in everyday life, the journey through 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 within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not visit 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 designed for this painting. Why?! I’ve no clue!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back from the painting and will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!