I wished to share this within a blog since it is so that very odd like that things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting in support of just lately removed it in the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to along side it within the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I needed a picture that I desired to paint, since i was pondering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The style was of a mountain, as we are decreasing through the top. I knew I want to it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. Therefore i developed a canvas. I knew beforehand the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a couple hours involved with it on the first day. The next day, I took the painting beside me to the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was some epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames and also this one in particular that we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran right 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 from Christies auction house. About the botton of 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 Classical impressionist artist I’d carried out the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, waiting for new life, away and off to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in daily life, right onto your pathway over the shadows and mountain highs. That has been slightly an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that people happened to have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been regarding the decent down a mountain side, whereby the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not come to my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! We have no clue!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back with the painting and will also be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!