Way too many Coinscidences: These kind of Mountains We Climb

I planned to share this in a blog which is so very odd doing this things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting in support of just recently removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat on the side from the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I’d a picture that we wished to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The image was of the mountain, even as we are coming down from the top. I knew I wanted it larger and not perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. So I created a canvas. I knew ahead of time that the painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was simply a couple of hours into it for the first day. The second day, I took the painting with me on 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 were discussing frames and also this one out of particular that individuals had just acquired came to mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! what an odd size!

But here’s where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. About the botton from the frame was a brass label. It had, alternatives 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 impressionism I needed done in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, expecting new life, on along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in everyday life, the journey with the shadows and mountain highs. That was a bit element 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 were concerning the decent down a mountain side, where in the title may be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t arrive at my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was meant for this painting. Why?! We have not a clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back with the painting and will be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!