I wished to share this in the blog which is so very odd that way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting simply recently took it off through the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the inside from the studio. A month ago, I needed a graphic that I wanted to paint, because I was thinking about life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The look was of a mountain, even as are decreasing from your top. I knew I want to it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. Therefore i created a canvas. I knew ahead of time how the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a couple hours in it about the first day. The other day, I took the painting with me at night for the beach and were 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 were discussing frames which one in particular that we had just acquired came to mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But here’s the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies ah. On the botton of 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 Plein air painting I had created carried out in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, awaiting new life, away and off to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in life, your way with the shadows and mountain highs. That has been a little bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be in regards to the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title may be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though had not arrive 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 whatever reason, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I have little idea!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back in the painting and you will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!