I wanted to share this in a blog since it is simply so very odd doing this things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting and only just lately took it off through the stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the medial side from the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I needed an image i wished to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The image was of the mountain, even as are coming down in the top. I knew I want to it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. Therefore i created a canvas. I knew in advance that the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a few hours involved with it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting beside me for the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames and also this one inch particular that people had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But this is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. About the botton of the frame was 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 Plein air painting I’d carried out in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they sat, awaiting new life, on the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in everyday life, your journey from the shadows and mountain highs. Which was a bit an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people became of have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was about the decent down a mountain side, whereby 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 like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! I’ve little idea!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back in the painting and you will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!