I wanted to share this in the blog since it is so that very odd this way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting simply just lately removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat off to the inside inside the studio. A month ago, I had created a photo which i desired to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The image was of the mountain, even as we are decreasing through the top. I knew I desired it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. And so i made a canvas. I knew before hand that the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just one or two hours into it around the first day. The next day, I took the painting beside me for the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It had been some epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames and also this one out of particular that people had just acquired came to mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But here is the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies ah. On the botton in the frame was obviously a brass label. It had, as yet 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 had created carried out the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, expecting new life, off and away to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in daily life, right onto your pathway from the shadows and mountain highs. That has been a bit a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame we happened to have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be concerning the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though hadn’t arrive at my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! I have not a clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back in the painting and will also be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!