Too Many Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this inside a blog which is so very odd this way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting and just just recently removed it through the stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, so the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the inside from the studio. A month ago, I had created a graphic which i wished to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The look was of your mountain, once we are decreasing from the top. I knew I desired it larger rather than perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. Therefore i created a canvas. I knew beforehand the painting would definitely be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only one or two hours involved with it about the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting with me towards 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 been discussing frames this also one inch particular that individuals had just acquired found mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But the following is the place that the story gets interesting, the frame originated Christies auction house. About the botton from 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 Plein air painting I needed carried out the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, looking forward to new life, off and away to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in life, your journey with the shadows and mountain highs. That was a little bit a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that we became of have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t come to my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! I have no idea!! But there it can be! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back with the painting and will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!