I desired to share this in a blog which is just so very odd like that things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and only just recently removed it through the stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the side in the studio. A month ago, I had a picture which i desired to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and helpless to overcome. The look was of the mountain, once we are decreasing from your top. I knew I desired it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew before hand the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a couple of hours in it for the first day. The second day, I took the painting with me at night for the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It had been a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We was discussing frames and this one in particular that people had just acquired came to mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But here’s in which the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies ah. On the botton of the frame was obviously 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 Classical impressionism I’d done in the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting new life, off to the 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. Which was a little bit an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we happened to have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were in regards to the decent down a mountain side, where in the title might be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t arrived at my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I have no idea!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back with the painting and will be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!