I wanted to share this within a blog which is so that very odd like that things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting simply just removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was a strange size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat on the medial side within the studio. A month ago, I had created an image i desired to paint, because I was pondering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The style was of your mountain, even as are coming down from your top. I knew I desired it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. And so i made a canvas. I knew ahead of time that this painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a couple of hours with it around the first day. The other day, I took the painting when camping on the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames this also one inch 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 this is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. On the botton with the frame was 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’d done in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, expecting new life, away and off to the medial side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in everyday life, the journey from the shadows and mountain highs. That was somewhat element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting were in regards to the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrived at my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I’ve no idea!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back of the painting and will also be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!